Independent Quotes - Page 29

• Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Spiritual, Mean, Son

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• Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Speech, Firsts, Kind

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• With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.

  Betsy Prioleau

  Strong Women, Conformity, Driven

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• I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

  John Travolta

  Jobs, Years, Balance

  "Wild Hogs - John Travolta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

  Brian De Palma

  Country, Talking, Years

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.

  Bernie Sanders

  Views, Different, Littles

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Animal, Tails, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.217, 谷月社

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• The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Art, Opportunity, Self

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• The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Leadership, Women, Government

  Phyllis Schlafly (1967). “Safe--not sorry”, Pere Marquette Pr

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• He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so many worthwhile things in this world, not merely for one's self but for others. But he is an unmitigated fool who imagines for a moment that it is more important to make the money than to make it honestly. One of the advantages of possessing money is that it facilitates one's independence and mental attitude. The man head over heels in debt is more slave than independent.

  B. C. Forbes

  Wise, Money, Attitude

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• Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.13, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

  Eric Hoffer

  Play, People, Work Out

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

  John Ruskin

  Sky, House, Design

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• Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.

  James Whistler

  Art, Eye, Pity Love

  James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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• True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Mind, Elegance, Manifestation

  Isabella Rossellini (1997). “Some of Me”, Random House Incorporated

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• ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Average, Abnormal

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.3, 谷月社

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• This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

  John Thune

  Approval Rating, Self, People

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• It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Freedom, Media, Doe

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• I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

  Henri Matisse

  Feelings, Individuality, Tradition

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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• The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

  Nancy Travis

  Doctors, Cities, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.

  John A. Macdonald

  People, House, Wish

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• "Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."

  Stephen Hawking

  War, Space, Mind Blowing

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• If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Integrity, Self

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Country, Integrity, Government

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• And now the really difficult part: We have to rebuild Iraq into a strong and independent nation that will one day hate the United States.

  David Letterman

  Strong, Hate, Iraq

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