"The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous……" — Lewis Thomas

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• The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on… — Theodor Adorno
• Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that… — Dan Simmons
• The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain… — Ravi Zacharias
• If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is… — Pierre Duhem
• There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility — David Buss
• Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the… — Theda Skocpol
• There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our… — Eric Hoffer
• The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous,… — Unknown Author
• I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our… — Daniel Pinchbeck
• The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what… — Robert K. Greenleaf
• This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America… — Louis A. Johnson
• In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He… — B.F. Skinner

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