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• The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Country, Fey, Literature

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• But I'm more scared of not writing.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Scared

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• Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Errors, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear – that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Choices, Toil, Doe

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

  Jaron Lanier

  Responsibility, Differences, Machines

  "One Half of a Manifesto". www.edge.org. November 10, 2000.

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• It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Psychological Health, Self

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Life, Moving, Self

  " Stumptown Girl" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. January 02, 2012.

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• People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Ideas, People, Needs

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hero, Greek, Morality

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• We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

  Francis Crick

  Running, Long, Guarantees

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• Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Ideas, Needs

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• Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Determination, Gun, Race

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.12, Beacon Press

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• I'm concerned with our autonomy. I don't like the idea of people collecting information on me in general, but I particularly don't like it when it's used to sort of exploit your weaknesses or make you lose control in some ways.

  Tim Wu

  Ideas, People, Weakness

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

  Bill Crawford

  Creating, Missing, Want

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• People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.

  Stan Shih

  People, Decision, Want

  "The 'Fast-Food' Computer Company". Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Religious, Roots, Political

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• Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly life. Freedom as an absolute is simply an assertion of man's "right" to be his own god; this means a radical denial of God's law-order. "Freedom" thus is another name for the claim by man to divinity and autonomy. It means that man becomes his own absolute.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Mean, Godly, Men

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• We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

  Desmond Tutu

  Real, Heaven, Hell

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.

  Christiane Northrup

  Men, Issues, Abortion

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• For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

  Julio Cortazar

  Clay, Soap Bubbles, Stories

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• The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from the rest of the world, so that his identity and autonomy are always in question.... He may not possess an over-riding sense of personal consistency or cohesiveness. He may feel more insubstantial than substantial, and unable to assume that the stuff he is made of is genuine, good, valuable. And he may feel his self as partially divorced from his body.

  R. D. Laing

  Real, Self, Consistency

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• We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.

  Victor Papanek

  Block, Teaching, Dark

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• Nothing is more important than restoring a high degree of autonomy to educational experiences so that those who grow up in this society and troubled world have the best available tools to grasp the challenges that imperil our national and human future.

  Richard A. Falk

  Growing Up, Educational, Challenges

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.

  Benjamin Ward Richardson

  Mean, Keys, Individual

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• What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Substance, Spheres

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.15, Verso

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