{"quotes":[{"text":"But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'? You’ll never find someone who fits that mold neatly, you know. On the whole, all people are good, or at least they’re normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch. That’s why you have to be careful.","author":"Sōseki Natsume","tags":["antebellum","contingency","ethics","evil","fin-de-siecle","freedom","individual","japan","meiji","modernism","self","the-crunch"],"id":3561,"author_id":"S%C5%8Dseki+Natsume"},{"text":"We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness.","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["alone","aloneness","individual"],"id":6595,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"},{"text":"There are those who travel but never really arrive. Those who visit a place but never know the people. Travel is so much more when you get closer to life and how it is lived here, wherever here may be. I am moving into the unknown to come into being at home wherever I find myself. Individually, inspired, and imaginative.","author":"Anna Asche","tags":["imaginative","individual","inspired","travel"],"id":7972,"author_id":"Anna+Asche"},{"text":"It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.","author":"William Thomas Stead","tags":["community","individual "],"id":8682,"author_id":"William+Thomas+Stead"},{"text":"The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["education","gifts","individual","service"],"id":15388,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"The unique fingerprint of every individual defines our unique purpose and mission on earth.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","ambition","belief","calling-people","christian","destiny","earth","encouragement","fingerprints","footprints-in-life","humanity","individual","inspiring","journey","life","life-lesson","mission","positive-thinking","potential","purpose","saved-souls","self-motivation","unique","unique-purpose","uniquely-you","uplifting","wisdom","your-life"],"id":15616,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.","author":"Theodore J. Kaczynski","tags":["change","conservatism","conservative","culture","democrat","economy","inconsistency","individual","industrialization","liberal","popular-culture","progressivism","reform","republican","society","technology","tradition","traditional","traditional-values"],"id":15911,"author_id":"Theodore+J.+Kaczynski"},{"text":"Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.","author":"Unarine Ramaru","tags":["advice","compelling","consideration","constructive-criticism","demean","demeaning","discernment","encourage","encouragement","examination","heart","individual","love","pure","rebuke","self-examination","sincerity","spirit"],"id":16234,"author_id":"Unarine+Ramaru"},{"text":"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.","author":"Plato","tags":["excess","individual","liberty","slavery","state"],"id":18398,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.","author":"Evan Thompson","tags":["existent","individual","mind","other","self","world"],"id":25176,"author_id":"Evan+Thompson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":265,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}