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• The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
  -- Marcel Duchamp...
• It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his natio
  hat the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole....
• PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole.
  The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
  -- Vince Lombardi...
• People who pursue their own intellectual interests for purely personal reasons are more likely to benefit the rest of the world than are people who try to act for the public good.
• Most people seem to think that trampling individual rights is OK if it is "for the good of society as a whole.
  However, society is but a large number of individuals, and how can harming the individual parts better the whole?...
• Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student.
• Are we to understand," asked the judge, "that you hold your own interests above the interests of the public?
  "I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals." -- Ayn Rand...