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• Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.

  David F. Swensen

  Eye, Acceptance, Thinking

  David F. Swensen (2009). “Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• That what's most relevant to you is whether and how you're doing something different from what everybody else is doing.

  Roger G. Ibbotson

  Thinking, Different, Investing

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• I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

  Edward Albee

  Kindness, Cruelty, I Have Learned

  1958 The Zoo Story.

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• What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence?

  Mary C. Ames

  Marriage, Mean, Support

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• Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Substance, World, Worlds Apart

  "Discourse on Metaphysics". Book by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1686.

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• Invention is totally independent of the will.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Invention

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.421

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• An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.

  Richard Whately

  Agents, Action, Blind

  Richard Whately (1861). “Miscellaneous Lectures and Reviews”, p.74

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• If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Rights, Essence

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• If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical: only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Ideas, Law, Life And Death

  "Farewell to Reason". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1987.

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• The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Opportunity, Class

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1851). “The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object”, p.59

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• The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Writing, Numbers, Lines

  "Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications". Book by David E. Y. Sarna, 2010.

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• We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Patience, Hero

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• The ex-Presidential situation has its advantages, but with them are certain drawbacks. The correspondence is large. The meritorious demands on one are large. More independent out than in place, but still something of the bondage of the place that was willingly left. On the whole, however, I find many reasons to be content.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Retirement, Presidential, Demand

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• We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Self, Soul, Mind

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• Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

  Ralph Charell

  Player, Thinking, Chess Pieces

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• The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf of independent organizations and institutions devoted to the public interest.

  Robert L. Payton

  Unique, Organization, America

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• Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Law, Gold, Silver

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 43), 1766.

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• The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

  Ben Bova

  Suicide, America, Trying

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• We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels on anyone whom they wish to destroy. ... [Academic professionals are the only person competant to differentiate between honest independents and the Communists.] This is our responsibility. It is not a pleasant task. But if it is left to outsiders, the distinction is not likely to be made and those independent critics of social institutions among us who are one of the glories of a true university could be silenced.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Responsibility, Self, Land

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• While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our readers will also do, between it and dogmatism. Dogmatism has been the bane of civilization and a curse to mankind. It has degraded our sex, stifled intelligent inquiry, and persecuted every independent reformer and every noble cause.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Sex, Powerful, Believe

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• There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Memories, Discovery

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• The experience of a sense of guilt for wrong-doing is necessary for the development of self-control. The guilt feelings will laterserve as a warning signal which the child can produce himself when an impulse to repeat the naughty act comes over him. When the child can produce his on warning signals, independent of the actual presence of the adult, he is on the way to developing a conscience.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Naughty, Self

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• I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn about and gather together. Then there is a sort of inevitable development in those fields. You get to the point where a certain theorem is bound to be proved, independent of any particular individual, because it is just in the path of development.

  William Thurston

  Thinking, Civilization, People

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• During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.

  Georg Solti

  War, Years, Important

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Men, Profound

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