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The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

Friedrich August von Hayek's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1974.

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

Ernst Mach (1914). “The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

David Bohm's dialogue with Renee Weber, first published in the journal ReVision (1983), later published in Renee Weber "Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity (p. 30), 1986.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

Charles Darwin (2007). “On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection Or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.293, Cosimo, Inc.

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.192, Harvard University Press