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• The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Uprising, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.375, Wildside Press LLC

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• If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

  Maya Angelou

  Strong, Healthy, Self Reliance

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• We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Giving Up, Mistake, Responsibility

  Calvin Coolidge (1972). “Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972”

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• The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

  Learned Hand

  Brave, Mind, Discussion

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• ...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, May, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.129, Hackett Publishing

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• I supported Barack Obama originally. I supported him for reelection and the alternative of a Mitt Romney is very, very clear to everybody. And I think the president has done a good job in a number of areas. But one area that has concerned me from day one has been his reliance on Wall Street type people in terms of financial matters.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Wall, Thinking

  "Jobs". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.sanders.senate.gov. February 5, 2013.

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• It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Self, Technique, Body

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• I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

  Bill Mollison

  Self, Practice, People

  "Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

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• At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Assessment, Self, Growing

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• Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

  Jerry Bridges

  Degrees, Christ, Smallest

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• Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us

  David Suzuki

  Heart, Successful, Technology

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• To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Self, Self Reliance, Friendship With God

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.52, Penguin

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• Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fighting, Class, Care

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Challenges, Self Reliance

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• I think we have to go through everything we go through in our life, and I believe my purpose in life was to teach self-reliance. So I had the experience of relying on myself very early in life in order to have that knowing, because otherwise I would've just read about it. I think of it now as a great advantage that I had. It certainly taught me to rely upon myself at a very young age. And that's what I've been teaching since I was a little boy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Teaching, Boys

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• I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.

  Charlie Sheen

  Strength, Emotional, Years

  "Angus T. Jones On Verge Of Breakdown? ‘Two And A Half Men’ Star A ‘Shadow Of Himself’" by Lauren Duca, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

  Kristen Stewart

  Strength, Thinking, People

  "Kristen Stewart on Robert Pattinson Relationship: 'Keep Them Guessing'" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 07, 2012.

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• Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their family would like to have in case of an emergency...(and) God will sustain us through our trials.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• The counsel to have a year's supply of basic food, clothing, and commodities was given fifty years ago and has been repeated many times since. Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their own family would like to have in the case of an emergency...store a year's supply...that might keep us form starving in case of emergency.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• We should ask ourselves: What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give counsel on how to overcome the world. We cannot know what that counsel is if we do not listen.

  James E. Faust

  Religious, Blessing, Giving

  "Reach Up for the Light".

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• No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Running, Religious, Men

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Today there are compelling reasons to reemphasize this counsel.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Compelling Reason, Offering

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• The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His Servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Self Reliance, Difficult Times

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

  Michael Polanyi

  Coherence, Judgment, Criteria

  Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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