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What's uniquely yours, described in your own words.
These quotes center on individuality, from treating every person as their own separate world to musicians moving on to pursue their own separate projects after a group disbands. For related lines on personal identity, see Like quotes.
What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for...
I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.
