Individual
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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.
Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.
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