Independent Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.

  Lee Smolin

  Words Of Wisdom, Lasts, Speak

  "The Life of the Cosmos". Book by Lee Smolin, January 1, 1997.

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• We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom." (Proverbs 4:7.) But in getting wisdom and getting knowledge, above all we should "get understanding." It is important to learn a profession, learn a trade. That applies not only to the young men, but it applies to you young women as well. You girls should place yourselves in a position to be self-supporting and independent in the event that tragedy or an emergency comes, for emergencies have come and will continue to come.

  Henry D. Taylor

  Girl, Wisdom, Book

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• The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Ego, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1395, Manonmani Publishers

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• I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.

  Abram Hoffer

  Life, Hope, Creating

  Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

  Charles Evers

  Blessed, Lord

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• I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Way In Life, Leaving, Proud

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• "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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• 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 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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• Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of independent unions, etc.) are directly correlated with US government support. The linkage is not accidental; rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious enough. Client fascism often improves the business climate for American corporations, quite generally the guiding factor in foreign policy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Violation Of Human Rights, Government, Squad

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• Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

  David Remnick

  Running, Risk, Serious

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Mikhail Khodorkovsky". Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2010.

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