Independent Quotes - Page 4

• Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Country, Prejudice, Taiwan

  "Complete Interview with President Chen Shui-bian". Interview with Keith Bradsher, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2007.

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• [I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

  John Quincy Adams

  Believe, Israel, Presidential

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• Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.

  Josef Albers

  Color, Harmony, Quantity

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.44, Yale University Press

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• A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

  Nick Mancuso

  Jobs, Night, Old Friends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.

  Peter Agre

  Medicine, Goal, Training

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• A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society. Internally he or she is independent. A society can become liberated externally - from oppression, but it can become free only when the majority of people are free internally.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Men, People, Majority

  "Free Man". Manifest by Simon Soloveychik, 1994.

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• Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

  Siobhan Davies

  Years, Choices, Dancer

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• The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

  Harold H. Greene

  Lying, Real, Differences

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• Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

  Harri Holkeri

  War, Years, United States

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• A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

  Fred Brooks

  Data, Trying, Principles

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• And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?

  Chester Bowles

  America, People, World

  "The Conscience of a Liberal". Book by Chester Bowles, 1962.

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• Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.

  Chapman Cohen

  Religious, Men, Shadow

  "The Freethinker", Vol. 84, G.W. Foote,(p. 215), 1964.

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• If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

  Camille Flammarion

  Teacher, Mean, Humble

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• I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

  John Sayles

  Mean, Once Upon A Time, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Certain, Existence, Argumentation

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• Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

  Christopher Dodd

  Senior, Years, Long

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• Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their emotions but independent of them. On days filled with the depths of despair, they can create. On days filled with the heights of joy, they can create.

  Robert Fritz

  Regret, Joy, Despair

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• Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Judging, Would Be, World

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• And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Omnipotence, Decision

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.

  Kate Morton

  Clever, Mean, Adventure

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent state.

  Jiang Zemin

  Rights, People, Support

  "Israel, Palestinians to resume direct negotiations". www.cnn.com. July 13, 1998.

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• I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Funny Graduation, Principles, Republican

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• I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.

  Sarah Polley

  Fun, Done, Film

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• Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

  Kurt Bills

  Party, Hard Work, Blue

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• Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.

  James Surowiecki

  Wise, Smart, Balance

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