Independent Quotes - Page 12

• For women especially, its important to be financially independent.

  Karrine Steffans

  Important

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• Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Mind, Democracy

  John Dewey (1977). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.229, SIU Press

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• Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, 'Go to sleep by yourselves.' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Sleep, Fighting

  "Growing Old in America". Grace Hechinger, Family Circle Magazine, July 25, 1977.

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• The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Thinking, Special

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Feminism, Phases

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• When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

  John Breaux

  Working Together, Done, Way

  "Interview With John Breaux". "CNN Live Today" with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

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• I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

  John Green

  Crazy, Book, Thinking

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• The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

  Milan Kundera

  New York, Design, Caverns

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• The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

  Lewis Thomas

  Islands, Self, Myth

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Purpose, Conscious, Unconscious

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.

  Tom Wicker

  Moving, President, Needs

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• Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Stars, Men, Evil

  "Fulton J. Sheen's Guide to Contentment". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 120, 1967.

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• He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

  Shang Yang

  Pride, Extraordinary Person, Ideas

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• We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Happiness, Lying, Passion

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.73, 谷月社

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• Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, People, World

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• Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Humility, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Somebody should tell Jerry Falwell that God is an Independent . . . he's not rich enough to be a Republican.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Race, Discovery

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein's Essays in Science”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course in that department of my brain that is devoted to music.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Brain, Curiosity, May

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• There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?

  Susan Jacoby

  Powerful, Struggle, Government

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• I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

  Tim Allen

  Children, Adults, Only Child

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

  Milton Avery

  Unique, Impact, Color

  Milton Avery, Ruth Fine, M. Knoedler & Co (2007). “Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor”

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• It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Rely Upon, Psychology, Domain

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• The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Women, Want, Generous

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• My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

  Lucille Kallen

  Marriage, Husband, Interesting

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