Sentences with phrase «less small number of individuals»

The broader issue is that smart political theologists have always conceded the same point: there is always a more or less small number of individuals who are able to live pretty well on Earth without recourse to religion.

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In his seminal book On Liberty, the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote: «Persons of genius are... more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their own character.»
While the numbers are not available, I expect that the number of lawyers serving individuals and small businesses likely grew even less.
Worse, the probability of an individual taking action is inversely proportional to the number of «bystanders», so a call to the over 1,000,000 lawyers in the US to participate in an ethics hearing is, paradoxically, much less likely than a call to a smaller, more focused group.
Outside of a certain number - crunching minority, benchmarking a smartphone is an unnecessary and anachronistic experience, since both the individual apps (and games) and the platforms on which they run are less sensitive to the minutiae of small hardware changes.
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