"In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought."

Independence, Self-Reliance, Strength, Action, Responsibility

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"Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."

Linus Torvalds, Finnish Businessman

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"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Independence, Respect, Ownership, Truth

"Don't run with the crowd, fly with the stars."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Revolutionary

Independence, Liberty, Nothing

"Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Independence, Self, Opinion, World, Solitude

"If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn't need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people's approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Independence, Approval, Right, Wrong, People

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"I listen'd, motionless and still;And, as I mounted up the hill,The music in my heart I bore,Long after it was heard no more."

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"The eye--it cannot choose but see;We cannot bid the ear be still;Our bodies feel, where'er they be,Against or with our will."

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

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"Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy."

"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."

"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."

"Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also."

"True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor."

"Don't run with the crowd, fly with the stars."

"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."

"Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers."

"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."

"If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn't need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people's approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery."

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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."

"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."

"I listen'd, motionless and still;And, as I mounted up the hill,The music in my heart I bore,Long after it was heard no more."

"The eye--it cannot choose but see;We cannot bid the ear be still;Our bodies feel, where'er they be,Against or with our will."

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."