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• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We...solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states...and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights

  Thomas Jefferson (1997). “Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision”, p.15, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

  Dido Armstrong

  Strong, Honest, Proud Woman

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• I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

  Emma Roberts

  Mom, Grew Up, Admire

  "Emma Roberts is Not a Hollywood Cliché". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. January 25, 2011.

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• In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

  Nicole Kidman

  Heart, Rebel, Nonconformist

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 19, 2016

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• Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

  Voltaire

  Believe, Taste, Fool

  "Candide, Or, Optimism". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

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• A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

  Naomi Wolf

  Motivational, Beauty, Women

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House

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• Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Stay Strong, Strong Women

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

  Hillary Clinton

  Life, Husband, Women

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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• I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever

  Elizabeth Warren

  Daughter, Cutting, Feminist

  "During Government Shutdown, Nonprofits Amplify Message About Women’s Reproductive Rights", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.

  Forbes Burnham

  Freedom, Failure, Views

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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• ... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

  Shang Yang

  Ideas, Conformity, Mass

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• My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

  T. Harv Eker

  Money, Freedom, Work

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 02, 2015

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• A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

  Henri Bergson

  Two, Different, Events

  Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Rights, Law

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Peace, Freedom

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• It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Self, Doubt, May

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• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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• Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy”

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• To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

  Jane Porter

  Inspirational, Support, Exertion

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• You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Selfish, Responsibility

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

  Catherine Ponder

  Self, Desire, Divine

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.109, Lulu.com

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• To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

  William Cobbett

  Wisdom, Independence, Politics

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.47

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• We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

  Thomas Friedman

  Energy, Needs, Aspire

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