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• Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Self, Perfect

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• What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or doubt. People today can't do this... what is the affliction? Their affliction is their lack of self-confidence. If you do not spontaneously trust yourself sufficiently, you will be in a frantic state, pursuing all sorts of objects, unable to be independent.

  Kelly Lin

  Confused, Self Esteem, Independent

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• Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self, Way, Moral

  "Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads" by Desmond Tutu, Dennis Van Roekel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

  Graham Norton

  Self, Looks, Might

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• All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

  Melinda Gates

  Self, Want, Loved Ones

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• Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Girl, Strong, Believe

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• Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

  Jean Craighead George

  Cat, Self, Loving Relationships

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• Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient being; the fountain and author of all being and good; the first cause, last end, and sovereign Lord of all; therefore, he is to be worshipped: therefore, are we to admire, adore, and love him; to praise, to trust and to fear him.

  John Owen

  Wise, Powerful, Self

  John Owen (1841). “A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit: Wherein an Account is Given of His Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations and Effects. Also the Nature and Necessity of Gospel Holiness, and the Difference Between Grace and Morality”, p.39

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• I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

  Louis C. K.

  Self, Helping, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Country, Russia, Self

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No one is self-sufficient.
  And it's not a one-way thing-
  -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self, Generosity, Way

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• In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-sufficient as possible, the community grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and everyone, including children, is expected to help bring in the yield.

  Scott Anderson

  Children, Teaching, Yield

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• We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Technology, Self

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• But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Pride, Self, Pausing

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• money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

  Margaret Heffernan

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Self

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• The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.

  John Piper

  Men, Self, Differences

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• Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

  John Green

  Home, Self, Long

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Strong, Self, Feels

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are able to find physical beauty in each other that doesn't terrify them.

  Laura Marling

  Thinking, Self, Female

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• What Mr. Muhammad says is, they should take their Navy and their - Merchant Fleet and ship us back where they got us.And that's not deportation, that's - returning stolen property to its proper owner.Now, since the government doesn't want to do that, then they - and they have already proven that they can't bring about peaceful relations on an integrated basis in this country, give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Government, Self

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• Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Self, People

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• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Self, Eyebrows, Gold

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• I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Self, Involved, Sufficient

  "Shirley MacLaine is angelic in ‘Heavenly’ Hallmark TV movie". Interview with Lynn Elber, www.apnews.com. November 22, 2016.

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• I started acting at seven years old. It took me 20 years to understand that if I was going to make my dreams a reality, I had to take the reigns. I had to learn something about being productive and being self what's the word I'm looking for? Self-sufficient, but I had to be productive at all costs and I had to make product.

  Vin Diesel

  Dream, Reality, Self

  Source: ellisbenus.com

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