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“...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself”

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“We are bent on weakening bonds in the name of growth and independance,then spend out adulthoods wondering why we have trouble getting close to other people.”

Children Independence

Book:Breastfeeding an Adopted Baby and Relactation

Source: Breastfeeding an Adopted Baby and Relactation

“Take that old sales pitch from Apple computers. 'Think different.' It's a nice sentiment for children, but what happens in real life? You come back proudly holding up what you found, but then people cover their eyes and scream, 'No, no! We didn't really mean for you to think different!' The truth is, if you just want to be weird on the surface, that's fine. They'll pay you handsomely as long as you go with the flow. But don't call the plan into question, otherwise they have to rewrite everything.”

Society Independence Think Different Apple Insights Freethinking

Book:Reparations Core

Source: Reparations Core

“Sometimes in life, a sudden situation, a moment in time, alters your whole life, forever changes the road ahead.”

Life Lessons Choices Life Quotes Choices And Consequences Path Of Life Life Changes

Book:Baghdad: The Final Gathering

Source: Baghdad: The Final Gathering

“Almost two hundred sixty-six years ago on my home world, Earth, my forefathers did the same thing. They declared their independence and free agency from an enemy that oppressed them. No one at that time expected this rebellion force to win the war. They were severely outnumbered, and they were extremely inexperienced compared to their enemy. Despite those odds, they succeeded in winning the war, giving them their independence and freewill to choose. (Adrian Palmer, Worlds Without End: The Mission)”

Quote Independence Agency Freewill Shaun F Messick Worlds Without End The Mission

Author:Shaun F. Messick

“It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.”

Independence Conventions Unconventionality

Book:Howards End

Source: Howards End

“Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you. It might be easier to swallow but it loses all its flavor and it will be covered in spit. And you want the flavor!”

Independent Independence Independent Women Do It Yourself Independent Woman Do Things

Author:Ze Frank

“I hated this new breed of pacifist Indian revolutionary. So often they acted like we were all just good friends who happened to disagree about something, and that once the issue was resolved – obviously in their favour – we’d go back to taking tea and being the best of chums. It made punching them in the face morally difficult.”

Hatred India Independence Human Rights Colonialism Non Violent Protest Struggle For The People Pacifisn

Book:Smoke and Ashes

Source: Smoke and Ashes

“True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.”

Love Independence

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Independence has made us Soft”

Politics Independence Revoloution

Book:The battle against underdevelopment: Being the text of his keynote address to the United Nations' General Assembly, in the special session on problems ... and development

Source: The battle against underdevelopment: Being the text of his keynote address to the United Nations' General Assembly, in the special session on problems ... and development

“I have an impulse to apologize, but my mother always says that many women apologize when they´ve done nothing wrong, like they´re apologizing simply for existing.”

Feminism Independence Male Gaze

Book:We Fell Apart

Source: We Fell Apart