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“Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.”
Kate Winslet
“for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.”
Albert Einstein
“Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
Will Rogers
“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence”
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”
Emma Goldman
“Independence is happiness.”
Susan B. Anthony
“In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.”
Howard Zinn
“True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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