Self Sufficient Quotes - Page 3

• [We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

  Donald Trump

  Self, Needs, Select

  Source: time.com

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• In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special protected place, the repository of tender, pure, and generous feelings (embodied by the mother) and a bulwark and bastion against the raw, competitive, aggressive, and selfish world of commerce (embodied by the father).... In performing this protective task, the good family was to be as self-sufficient as the good man.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Mother, Selfish, Father

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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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• He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Vanity, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• I feel I must acknowledge that gay people are, generally speaking, funnier, more self-sufficient, and better in crises and I should step aside and let them handle the business whenever it comes up.

  Thao Nguyen

  Gay, Self, People

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• Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient.

  David Batstone

  Self, Together We Can, Differences

  Source: forums.juniper.net

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• Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Self, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were they ever, the self-sufficient building blocks of society, exclusively responsible, praiseworthy, and blamable for their own destiny. They are deeply influenced by broad social and economic forces over which they have little control.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Block, Destiny, Self

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Believe, Boys

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

  W. H. Auden

  Self, Enough, Existence

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Greeks and Us"), (p. 15), 1973.

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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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• The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And it tells us that for a family to need help--or at least to admit it publicly--is to confess failure. Similarly, to give help, however generously, is to acknowledge the inadequacy of the recipients and indirectly to condemn them, to stigmatize them, and even to weaken what impulse they have toward self-sufficiency.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Self, Giving, Needs

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• Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Men, Self

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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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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• Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful.

  John Townsend

  Strong, Powerful, Self

  "Where Is God". Book by John Townsend, 2009.

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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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• 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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• I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.

  Stella Vine

  Self, Age, Able

  "The 5-Minute Interview: Stella Vine: 'There have been a few times" by Karl Mansfield, The Independent, November 28, 2005.

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• Politicians detest self-sufficient citizens. Politicians need to be needed. When we get socialized medicine, you will be completely dependent upon politicians for your medical care, as Canadians are today. That's why if you need an MRI in Canada, you have to wait three months - unless you pay certain kinds of homage to the right politicians.

  Neal Boortz

  Self, Medicine, Waiting

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• Yes, you can get a man to do just about anything, and you know it. So, what are you going to attract him into doing? Buying you a nice house? Giving you the space to guide your own life? Or, offering his deepest gifts to you and all beings while opening his heart to God?
  Are you a selfish witch, a self-sufficient witch, or a witch for the sake of drawing your man and all beings open as a gift for all?

  David Deida

  Love, Selfish, Nice

  David Deida (2009). “Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Men, Sex, and Love's Deepest Bliss: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear the brunt of the surveillance, leading those who support the government or are merely apathetic to mistakenly believe they are immune. And history shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Believe, Government

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Blow

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

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• I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.

  Ratan Tata

  Independent, Thinking, Self

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• The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

  Larry Wall

  Self, Hands, Smell

  Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2004). “Programming Perl: 3rd Edition”, p.4, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• In fact, the left can't survive with independently self-sufficient, self-reliant people. They aren't needed if that ever happens, or within groups of people like that. So they have to assume that people are mind-numbed robots.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, People, Mind

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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