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"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models."
Omar Bongo
"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models."
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"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."
Robert Mugabe
"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."
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"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."
Ho Chi Minh
"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."
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"When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused."
Bashar al-Assad
"When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused."
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"Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable."
Mikhail Saakashvili
"Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable."
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"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
Sam Houston
"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
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"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
Patrick Henry
"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
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"Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you."
Robert Tew
"Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you."
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"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
Patrick Henry
"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
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"You'll never have to fend for yourself like that, Lincoln. You never have to be alone. Why would you want to?"He leaned back against his bedroom wall and slunk down until he was sitting on the cast-iron radiator. "I just...," he said. "Just?""I need to live my life.""You aren't living your own life now?" she asked. "I certainly never tell you what to do.""No, I know, it's just...""Just?""It doesn't feel like I'm living my own life.""What?""It feels like, as long as I stay home, I'm still living your life. like I'm still a kid.""That's silly," she said."Maybe," he said."
Rainbow Rowell
"You'll never have to fend for yourself like that, Lincoln. You never have to be alone. Why would you want to?"He leaned back against his bedroom wall and slunk down until he was sitting on the cast-iron radiator. "I just...," he said. "Just?""I need to live my life.""You aren't living your own life now?" she asked. "I certainly never tell you what to do.""No, I know, it's just...""Just?""It doesn't feel like I'm living my own life.""What?""It feels like, as long as I stay home, I'm still living your life. like I'm still a kid.""That's silly," she said."Maybe," he said."
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"Don't beg anyone for any form of gratification, be it mental, psychological or sexual, for resorting to such practices in itself is an insult to your existence. Celebrate in your own grandeur with dignity!"
Ramana Pemmaraju
"Don't beg anyone for any form of gratification, be it mental, psychological or sexual, for resorting to such practices in itself is an insult to your existence. Celebrate in your own grandeur with dignity!"
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"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."
James Stockdale
"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."
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"Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence."
Treat Williams
"Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence."
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"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
Franz Kafka
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
Henry David Thoreau
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
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"I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them."
Truth Devour
"I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them."
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"Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe."
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"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
William Cobbett
"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
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"I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security."
Patricia Heaton
"I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security."
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"I was born with a fierce need for independence."
Michelle Williams
"I was born with a fierce need for independence."
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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net."
Cynthia Heimel
"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net."
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"But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been."
John H. Reagan
"But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been."
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"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."
David Ben Gurion
"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."
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"I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching."
Christy Mathewson
"I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching."
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"I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top."
Barry Bonds
"I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top."
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"Do not pay attention to what the people around you are thinking and saying."
Sunday Adelaja
"Do not pay attention to what the people around you are thinking and saying."
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"Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy."
Jalal Talabani
"Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy."
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"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
"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."
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"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
Stephen Breyer
"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
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"So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent."
Haruki Murakami
"So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent."
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"Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also."
Osho
"Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also."
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"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
Franz Kafka
"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
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"Journalists prize independence - not teamwork."
Ken Auletta
"Journalists prize independence - not teamwork."
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"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
Susanna Moodie
"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
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"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
Publilius Syrus
"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
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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."
John Desmond Bernal
"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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"Don't run with the crowd, fly with the stars."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Don't run with the crowd, fly with the stars."
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"Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam."
Maggie Stiefvater
"Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam."
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"Cat doesn't have to work. She's a woman of independent means. I settled enough money on her to allow her the freedom to do anything she wished. She went to boarding school for four years, and stayed to teach for another two. Eventually she came to me and said she'd accepted a position as a governess for the Hathaway family. I believe you were in France with Win at the time. Cat went for the interview, Cam and Amelia liked her, Beatrix and Poppy clearly needed her, and no one seemed inclined to question her lack of experience."Of course not, Leo said acidly. "My family would never bother with something so insignificant as job experience. I'm sure they started the interview by asking what her favorite color was."
Lisa Kleypas
"Cat doesn't have to work. She's a woman of independent means. I settled enough money on her to allow her the freedom to do anything she wished. She went to boarding school for four years, and stayed to teach for another two. Eventually she came to me and said she'd accepted a position as a governess for the Hathaway family. I believe you were in France with Win at the time. Cat went for the interview, Cam and Amelia liked her, Beatrix and Poppy clearly needed her, and no one seemed inclined to question her lack of experience."Of course not, Leo said acidly. "My family would never bother with something so insignificant as job experience. I'm sure they started the interview by asking what her favorite color was."
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"John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years."
Eli Wallach
"John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years."
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"Quit waiting for others to give to you, it is not going to happen."
Bryant McGill
"Quit waiting for others to give to you, it is not going to happen."
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"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
Edward Dahlberg
"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
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"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."
Toba Beta
"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."
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"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
Aulus Persius Flaccus
"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
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"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."
Gerald R. Ford
"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."
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"The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion."
Dorothy Corkville Briggs
"The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion."
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"I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself."
Connie Mack
"I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself."
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"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."
Sunday Adelaja
"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."
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"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."
Jack Levine
"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."
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"I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent."
Louisa May Alcott
"I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent."
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