A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.Herbert Read
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You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
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The earliest records of our species point to group organizations - the primitive horde, nomadic tribes, settlements, communities, cities, nations.
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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
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If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
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