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• We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

  Dan Miller

  Thinking, Government, Way

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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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• Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

  Karl Radek

  Class, Different, Mixtures

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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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• 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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• 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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

  William Whewell

  Exercise, Ideas, Mind

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• Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

  Julian Baggini

  Morality, Without God

  Julian Baggini (2009). “Atheism”, p.53, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Galactica has infinite possibilities. In fact, my character may be abnormal in the sense that she may be more independent than most of the women in classic space adventures.

  Maren Jensen

  Adventure, Character, Space

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• I worked on three independent movies in close succession and I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.

  Michael Urie

  Directors, Three, Done

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• I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, Sleep, Cat

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• I know it is said repeatedly that I was in support of the American invasion in Iraq. It is simply not true. I was in favor of helping the Iraqis, and most specifically Ahmad Chelebi and the Kurdish leadership to set up an independent government of free Iraq. I think that would have been the right thing to do.

  Bernard Lewis

  Thinking, Support, Helping

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• Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government.

  Neal Boortz

  Government, People, Independence

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• The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

  Lou Henry Hoover

  Girl, Wrath, Trembling

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• Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group where it’s safest, don’t stand out too much, don’t move too far away from convention, etc. They want to be led and dictated to. But they’re stubborn, mulish animals and they like to think they’re independent and free.

  Blanche Barton

  Moving, Animal, Thinking

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• Singapore shall cease to be a state of Malaysia and shall forever be an independent and sovereign state and nation separate from and independent of Malaysia, and that the government of Malaysia recognises the government of Singapore as an independent and sovereign government of Singapore and will always work in friendship and cooperation with it.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Government, Forever, Sovereign

  "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd (proclamation of Singapore separation from Malaysia, August 9, 1965), 2012.

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• The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Vision, Movement, Welfare

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (2010). “Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Enough, Blanket

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Ideas, Risk, Inner Strength

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• For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.

  Betty Fussell

  Joy, Path, Cranky

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