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" Independence is a very subjective assessment. "

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" I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments. "

" I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it. "

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" There's no such thing as an independent person. "

" Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. "

Aslan Maskhadov

" My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. "

" Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. "

" When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that. "

" The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. "

" The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. "

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" To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence. "

Edwidge Danticat

" I discovered my path to independence through technology as well as the potential for a global lifeline for trans people around the world who were looking for the same. "

" What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.' "

" Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence. "

Rebecca Traister

" Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. "

" I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do. "

Independent Woman

" There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

" New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over. "

Paloma Elsesser

" In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody's ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like 'Independence Day.' "

" They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there. "

" Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. "

" Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers. "

Jacqueline Novogratz

" Here's the American situation - we have moved from a culture of independence to a culture of dependence. We have moved from capitalism into the direction of socialism. We have moved from being a beacon of strength internationally to a position of weakness. "

" I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly. "

" In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers. "

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

" Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit. "

Nandan Nilekani

" We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence. "

Hjalmar Branting

" There's very little proof that Obama or anyone in his administration - particularly Hillary Clinton - truly understands or believes the tenets in the U.S. Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. If they did, they would know that they are running a federal government in direct contradiction to both of those sacred documents. "