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Independence Quotes
"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one."
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"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."
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"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
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"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."
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"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."
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"The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion."
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"I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type."
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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."
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"In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought."
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"I like being on my own. I mean, I'm sure a Pack's best for some dogs, but I've walked alone since I left my Pup Pack. I can look after myself."
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"Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it."
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"On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay."
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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net."
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"Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners."
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"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
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"In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself."
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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."
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"I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way."
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"Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it."
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"Quit waiting for others to give to you, it is not going to happen."
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"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
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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."
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"Very often it seems that people assume that by cutting the wings of others, it becomes easier to love them. They know so little about love that end up creating a perception of love that is devilish and demoniacal. And I end with no other choice but to remain single and let them go."
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"He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone."
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"Do not pay attention to what the people around you are thinking and saying."
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"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."
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"There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations."
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"Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge."
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"If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?"
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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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"You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him."
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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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"Phew. I thought I was going to have to slay a few dragons for you while I was here. 'I'm no damsel in distress, Your Highness. I can take care of myself."
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"It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine."
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"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."
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"I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine."
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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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"If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string."
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"Be independent, and do what you will."
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"Maybe the princess could save herself.""That sounds like a pretty good story too."
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"Be independent, ad do what you will."
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"The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues."
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"Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence."
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"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"
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