"You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character."
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"Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action."
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"I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall."
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"We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct."
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"Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility"
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"Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help."
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"The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms."
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"It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future."
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"In case Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic, seeking to destroy its independence, we will have to assist the Mongolian People's Republic."
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"Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity."
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"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."
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"Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness."
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"The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence."
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"No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence."
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"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
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"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."
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"We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it."
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"There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them."
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"The genius must have his freedom and his independence."
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"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."
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