898 Quotes About Independence


  • Author Dodie Smith
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    Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

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  • Author E. F. Schumacher
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    Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

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  • Author Hu Shih
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    India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

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  • Author Kenny Smith
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    Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to."

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  • Author Maurice Saatchi
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    True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

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