Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence. — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
I was raised to do things for myself, survive on my own, do my own thing, with little or no help from… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a… — Maura Tierney Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." [ Stanford University commencement speech , 2005]” — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My parents were very unusual. They were pro-women and independence and they wanted me to have my own career. And because of… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence. — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
As we celebrate on this day, remember that no nation is perfect. It needs to be made perfect. Happy Independence Day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K.… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France,… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine… — Gary North Copy Share Image
“Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after fifty years of… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Calumny... gives [Harry] a spiritual purity in the sense that it scours away any outward show, any wish to live by the… — Luke Bell Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't want to be any more interesting than I am. I love the life that I get to live, which is… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
“We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth. — Horace Kephart Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I think part of the way in which kids develop emotional and psychological resiliency is by having some independence. — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“ You've had it the easiest. What good is all your privilege, you soft, spoiled thing, if you can't stand on your… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
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