Reliance Quotes - Page 18

• We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Believe, Recovery, Self Confidence

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• We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our reliance - an almost religious reliance - upon the power of science and technology to forever ensure the progress of our society, might blind us to some very real problems which cannot be solved by science and technology.

  Robert Strausz-Hupe

  Religious, Real, Technology

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• Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Design, Gimmicks, Aesthetics

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• The literature has become too vast to comprehend...It is...difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. ...There is much more reliance on word of mouth for the transmission of scientific data...gossip.

  Lewis Thomas

  Dark, Data, Gossip

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• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

  William O. Douglas

  Nature, Adventure, Journey

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• To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Educational, Philosophy, Self

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• The virtue in most request is conformity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Aversion, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.32

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• The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

  Hawa Abdi

  Self, Long, Somalia

  "The doctor undaunted by Somalia's insurgents" by Laila Ali, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2011.

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• We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

  Alexander Bickel

  War, Law, Judging

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• Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.

  James I. Robertson, Jr.

  Self, Southern, Inspire

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• Looking more deeply at the emergence of ISIS or the chaos that exists in Syria, Yemen and Libya would clearly raise crucial doubts about reliance on military intervention and drone warfare as adequate counterterrorist responses and would call attention to the detrimental effects of US "special relationships" with Israel and Saudi Arabia.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, Israel, Isis

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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  Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Song

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

  Lucy Powell

  Yield, Fuel Prices, Effort

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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• I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.

  Neil Peart

  Determination, School, Self

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else.

  Leigh Newman

  Thinking, Self, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This issue of expanding the reach of international criminal law by reliance on the use of Universal Jurisdiction by domestic courts needs to be balanced against the injustice of according impunity to those with strong geopolitical backing. It is notable that several western European countries backtracked on UJ after threats of retaliatory moves by the United States and Israel. There is no doubt that the domain of UJ is a geopolitical battleground.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Moving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.

  Robert Browning

  Dream, Prayer, Memories

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

  Alan Ball

  Tv Shows, Littles, Tvs

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• An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Mean, Self

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The working poor in the South are often blamed for their reliance on "traditional" Southern food, while in reality, most are eating the same heavily processed, cheap, convenience foods that the majority of working people eat across the United States.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Reality, People, Southern

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Men, Expression

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Self, Effort, Risk

  Said in 1936. Prologue to "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, 1993.

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• Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Regret, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and self-investment. Instead, people are told that American is unjust, unfair, and full of disadvantages. They are told that their only hope is for government to fix their problems. What has happened is that generations of people have bought into this nonsense and as result have remained hopelessly mired in poverty and despair -- because the promised solutions don't work. And they will never work -- they never have.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Self, People

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• I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Jesus, Looks, Merit

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