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Independence Quotes
"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."
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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."
184
"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."
183
"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."
161
"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."
129
"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
88
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."
86
"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."
76
"Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you."
74
"If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated."
64
"The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward."
63
"If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life's blessings."
61
"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
60
"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."
59
"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
58
"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."
58
"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
57
"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
56
"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."
56
"The most liberating feeling in the world is to not give the negative opinions of others any traction."
56
"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
56
"Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy."
56
"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."
55
"I was born with a fierce need for independence."
54
"When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves."
54
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
54
"A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber."
54
"As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can."
53
"Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence."
53
"Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe."
52
"I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security."
52
"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."
52
"There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking."
52
"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."
50
"Don't run with the crowd, fly with the stars."
50
"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."
50
"Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence."
49
"Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also."
49
"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."
48
"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."
47
"You're not going to let her do this, are you? Bones snorted. 'Let her? Mate, if you think you can control a woman, you must be single--and a thousand pounds says she beats your arse."
47
"I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them."
47
"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."
46
"Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights."
46
"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."
46
"Sophie had survived on her own for a long time. She knew she didn't need a man, not even Darius. But she wanted him. That made all the difference in the end."
45
"Squatting on my bed"after twelve years of trying and missing, in about two minutes total"I put my own contacts in for the first time. Second try on the right eye, first try on the left. I blinked in the contact, my apartment where I now lived alone and my story coming into focus."
45
"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
44
"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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