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• The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals.
  The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten....
• People have been so encouraged by society to focus on apparent differences that they fail to see meaningful similarities among ideas, individuals, and groups.
• 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?...
• People in groups tend to agree on courses of action which as individuals, they know are stupid.
• You have many friends and very few enemies.
• Truly innovative ideas do not arise from groups of people, but from individuals.
  When groups try to be creative, the members force each other to compromise and, as a result, creative ideas tend to be weakened and made more conventional....
• Very few people are worshipping a golden calf, yet many of them are buying it a pound at a time at their local meat market.
• The greatness of kings is made at the margin; the greatness of legislatures, at the mean.
  That is to say, a monarch is judged by individual virtues and performance, but no legislature can be called great because it contained one or a few impressive individuals, to whom it paid no heed....
• Dear Advertisers, I am disgusted with the way old people are depicted on television.
  We are not all vibrant, fun-loving sex maniacs. Many of us are bitter, resentful individuals who remember the good old days when entertainment was bland and inoffensive....