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"We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways."
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"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."
"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."
"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."
"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
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"The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country."
"Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace."
"Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be."
"There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them."
"As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt."
"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
"It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future."
"The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved."
"Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so."
"Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain."
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