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" It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. "
W. Somerset Maugham
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Independence
Just
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" If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, we must first thoroughly reexamine and learn about each of them, and uphold America's founding documents by testing every political action in light of them. "
Chuck Norris
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" I built my entire life on the idea of independence. "
Valerie Trierweiler
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" Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence. "
Mario Draghi
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" We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. "
Henry Lawson
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" Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk. "
Philip Hammond
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" If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary. "
Dennis Chavez
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" The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery. "
Lajos Kossuth
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" India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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" We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. "
W. Somerset Maugham
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Others
Our
" When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Personality
Friendship
Character
" Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy. "
Elton Gallegly
Law
Achieving
People
" Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security. "
B. Carroll Reece
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Independence
Look
" Without U.S. independence, North America would have remained a rural, non-industrial breadbasket. Blessed as it was with natural resources, agrarian North America would have supplied cotton and beef and lumber to industrial Britain. America would thus be more like Australia - a nice enough place to live, but no kind of world power. "
Stephen Bannon
Blessed
America
World
" Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Guide
Jailer
Tradition
" Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty. "
Damian Marley
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" If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. "
Tony Snow
America
You
Think
" I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman. "
Diane von Furstenberg
Own
Independence
Her
" The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence. "
Ehud Barak
Leadership
Together
Spirit
" In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end to war and bloodshed. In response, seven Arab states invaded Israel. The U.N. resolution that partitioned the country was thus violated and effectively annulled. "
Yitzhak Shamir
War
End
Independence
" To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity. "
Herbert Croly
American
Life
Opportunity
" I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. "
W. Somerset Maugham
I Can
Life
Comfortable
" I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me. "
Emilia Fox
Independence
Work
Me
" The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. "
Marshall McLuhan
Village
Independence
World
" My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary. "
Victor Ponta
Respect
Government
Independence
" National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule. "
Pankaj Mishra
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Political
" There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Universe
Evil
Order
" I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff. "
Liz Phair
People
Know
Independence
" How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important. "
Parker Posey
Independence
Privacy
Solitude
" The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other. "
John Quincy Adams
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Government
King
" In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness? "
Lionel Shriver
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Independence
Right