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"I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that."
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
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"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"
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Personal Development
"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."
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Personal Development
"Never let a day be your control factor."
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Personal Development
"The dream is yours. why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within."
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Personal Development
"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."
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Personal Development
"Self-confident people don't make their self-esteem, self-image, happiness, or self-confidence dependent on another person's approval, validation, or acceptance."
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"Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation."
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"The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has-from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness."
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"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."
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"It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions."
Life
"I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right."
Thought
"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
Negative
"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing."
Writing
"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind."
Government
"Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing."
Nothing
"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
Discipline
"It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing."
Honor
"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
Decision-Making
"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
Intelligence
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