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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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"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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"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
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"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
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"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."
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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."
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"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
Negative
"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
"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
"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
"What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city."
Honor
"I believe in that connection between freedom and the city."
Connection
"Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally."
Man
"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
Compromise
"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India."
Fact
"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."
Independence
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