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1731 Independent quotes by 1294 unique authors
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An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on the playing field…
— Sheila Cornell-Douty
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You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
— Baltasar Gracian
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The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum…
— Bernard d'Espagnat
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Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully.…
— Brian Johnson
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Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.
— Charles Lindbergh
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The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come…
— Edward Forbes
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The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are…
— Fritz Haber
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I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the…
— William Borah
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Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to "fine-tune" the economy…
— Thomas DiLorenzo
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The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes…
— Unknown Author
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The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given…
— Robert Mayer
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There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives…
— William Thomas Councilman
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Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They…
— James Black
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it…
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created…
— Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and…
— Sri Aurobindo
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They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we tell it…
— Vladimir Putin
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Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an…
— Vladimir Putin
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