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Independence Quotes
"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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"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."
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"Do not pay attention to what the people around you are thinking and saying."
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"Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners."
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"The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion."
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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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"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."
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"If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life's blessings."
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"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."
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"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
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"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
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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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"Quit waiting for others to give to you, it is not going to happen."
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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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"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 woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber."
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"You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him."
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"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."
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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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"Be independent, ad do what you will."
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"He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone."
3
"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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"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."
3
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
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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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"If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string."
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"I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own."
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"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
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"Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?"
2
"When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves."
2
"Don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own."
2
"Be independent, and do what you will."
2
"Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence."
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"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."
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"Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge."
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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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"The dream is yours. why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within."
2
"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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"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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"There are times when you have to do things for yourself, not because no one else can do it, but because no one else can do it to the degree you want."
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"No. I can survive well enough on my own- if given the proper reading material."
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"You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase."
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"If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn't need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people's approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery."
2
"If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?"
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"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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"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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"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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