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"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
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"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."
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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."
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"Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness."
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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."
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"Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over."
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"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."
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"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
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"For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom."
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"If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope."
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"A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under."
Leadership
"Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican."
Living
"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."
Education
"All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men."
Man
"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
Independence
"Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages."
Nation
"I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time."
Time
"In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her."
Love
"Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation."
Policy
"I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man."
Thought
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