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" We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. "

Robert M. Pirsig

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" I'm for economic independence. "

" In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent. "

" What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment. "

" Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence. "

" To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. "

Randa Abdel-Fattah

" We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence. "

Charles Boustany

" The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you. "

" We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians. "

" At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left. "

" Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England. "

" Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. "

" I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. "

Charlotte Bronte

" Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. "

William J. Clinton

" Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. "

John D. Rockefeller

" One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. "

Albert II of Belgium

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

Rebecca Traister

" It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil. "

Robert M. Pirsig

" It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious. "

" Our clients value our independence as the leading partner of both the established providers and emerging players. "

Pierre Nanterme

" Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence; it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces. "

" The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words 'All Men' exclude a vast number of citizens. "

Colson Whitehead

" I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined. "

" Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary. "

" I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again. "

" Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor driven, and if he wanted to, Putin could have a lot to donate. "

" As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. "

" My family come from Cyprus. Both my father and my grandfather worked on the British bases there, and as the British government granted independence to Cyprus, they granted British passports to those who worked with them. "

" The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man. "

" Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence. "

" Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? "

Robert M. Pirsig