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• Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.

  Eileen O'Brien

  Humility, White, Justice

  Eileen O'Brien (2001). “Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and their Paths to Action”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human -- autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict between our individualistic and our sociality. It celebrates the commonality of our species while simultaneously setting us apart as unique individuals.

  Greg Graffin

  Creativity, Independent, Unique

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• Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.

  Novalis

  Self, World, Unions

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read.

  Kim Boykin

  Falling In Love, Book, Library

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• If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.

  Jean Sibelius

  Writing, Expression, Use

  Interview with Berlingske Tidende, June 10, 1919.

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• My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Names, Soldier, Titles

  "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation". Speech at Sweet Briar College, gos.sbc.edu. April 02, 1993.

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• Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Sophisticated, Enough, Simulation

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• As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on coloniz­ing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.

  David Korten

  People, Corporations, Gains

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• Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for thinking (“freedom of the pen”)=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment.

  Hannah

  Men, Thinking, Common Sense

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• When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives.

  Nafis Sadik

  Mean, Player, Rights

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• As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some 'they' is manipulating 'us', using, among other dark arts, advertising.

  George Will

  Art, Dark, Thinking

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• The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

  Joe Torre

  Baseball, Games, Contribution

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• Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Spiritual, Enemy, Bureaucracy

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

  Vaclav Havel

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Focus

  "Vaclav Havel's Dissident Criticism" by Peter Lawler, bigthink.com.

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• The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.

  John Walford

  Art, Creativity, Irrelevance

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• A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.

  St. Vincent

  Song, Mean, Emotional

  "St Vincent: 'I needed to know where the exits were'". Interview with Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Flow, Degrees

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 188, 1974.

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• There are a lot of weapons that we've developed which we've pulled back from - biological weapons, chemical weapons, etc. This may be the case with armed autonomous robotics, where we ultimately pull back from them.

  Peter Singer

  May, Weapons, Etc

  "Peter W. Singer’s Killer Robots". Interview with Eric Stoner, www.motherjones.com. January 29, 2009.

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• History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

  Peter Singer

  Issues, Looks, Fiction

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• When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of adhesiveness and connection and sharing of this ethos.

  Anne Waldman

  School, Ethos, People

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, Unique, Identity

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• The National Liberation Front was not...a viable, autonomous organization with a life of its own; it was a facade, a "front," by means of which the DLD (the North Vietnamese Communist Party) sought to mobilize the people in the South to accomplish its ends, and to garner international sympathy and support.

  George Allen

  War, Party, Mean

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• The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again."

  Hans Zimmer

  Bored, Challenges, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Memories, Mind

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they share with their parents. It is not to say that the intimacy is lost, but that it needs to change as children forge an autonomous identity and make their way into the adult world.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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