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  • "I want to know," said Phil Matlack, rising, "if one man asserts what you call his individ'ality in such a way that it runs up agin another man's, and that second man ain't inclined to stand it, if that --"

    The Associate Hermits Frank Richard Stockton 1868

  • As Tocqueville wrote, “Our fathers did not have the word individ - ualisme, which we have coined for our own use, be - cause in their time there was indeed no individual who did not belong to a group and who could be considered as absolutely alone” (L'ancien régime et la révolution

    TYPES OF INDIVIDUALISM STEVEN LUKES 1968

  • Instead, he taught the doctrine of anatta (an = not; atta = self), according to which the so-called individ - ual self is the illusory product of the temporary collocation of five khandhas, which are various psychical and physical elements that make up a human being.

    SIN AND SALVATION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

  • Multiculturalism is the collectivist belief that the ultimate political unit is the group, that all individuals must be classified in some group and treated according to the supposed mores of that group, regardless of any deadly consequences to the individ ual.

    Open Societies, Their Enemies and Multiculturalism 2011

  • Rupert Fawcett, head of the Italian team at estate agent Knight Frank International, says he knows of individ uals who became deeply involved in a project which left them practically bankrupt.

    Challenges of Castle Ownership 2010

  • We've impressed upon her how valuable she is to us as an individ - ual and as a patriot.

    A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air 2010

  • Ron Paul takes it back to individ freedoms (natch) and says, hey - we have to roll this idiocy back: "The war on drugs isn't working!"

    Rachel Sklar: Liveblog! GOP Black Voter Forum: Half The Candidates, Double The Fun! 2008

  • Bad Apple – causation – conservs individ action/initiative/responsibility individ punishment.

    Firedoglake » Day of the Locusts 2006

  • February 4th, 2005 at 8:23 am individ-ewe-al, only nomen nescio made a technological argument.

    Various open pages on my desktop 2005

  • Botë të tillë një individ duhet të duket shumë si pushtimit të Grabitesve Trupit.

    ideonexus.com »2004» Maj 2004

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