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“Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.”
Louis K. Anspacher
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”
Charles Darwin
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Erma Bombeck
“Interdependency follows independence.”
Stephen R. Covey
“If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators”
Bertrand Russell
“Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.”
Deborah Tannen
“Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.”
Jean Baudrillard
“The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.”
Margaret Mead
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