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“This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.”

People Self Interest Pay Attention Function Independent Pay Attention Approval Preservation Polls Self Interest Rating Self Preservation Approval Rating

Author:John Thune

“Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.”

Ifs Thinking Shows Three Function Independent Sufficient Colour Thrive Variables

Book:The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862

“I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.”

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Author:Ben Bernanke

“There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.”

Men World States Hurt Accepting Moral Sacrifice Brother Function Independent Individuality Code Motive Individualism No Hope Moral Code

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.”

Ifs Self Leadership Discipline Function Independent Managers

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.”

Lasts Law Function Independent Court Nine Firm Individualism Citadels Jealously Law Firms

Author:Colin Powell

“We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is very important but... not as important as we believe. Most of the important things that we do don't depend on memory. To hear, to see, to touch, to feel happiness and pain; these are functions which are independent of memory; it is an a priori thing. Thus, for me, what memory does is to modify that a priori thing, and this it does in a very profound way.”

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Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.”

House Process Ethics Abuse Function Independent Majority Abuse Of Power Molestation

Author:Louise Slaughter

“Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience-- yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without leaders, prompted without aim-- except the one to make good, to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.”

“The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.”

“You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".”

“What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.”

Doe Reality Purpose Knowledge Function Independent Representation Adaptive

Author:Ernst von Glasersfeld

“At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.”

World Needs Children Persons Might Faces Form Mother Next Born Psychology Baby Personality Birth Function Independent Urges Conquest Womb Absorbing Bodily Functions

Author:Maria Montessori

“The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization of the nervous system, in general, and of the brain in particular, just as the knowledge of the functions of a sense is independent of the knowledge of the structure of its apparatus.”

Law Brain Fate Particular Organization Function Independent Structure Nervous Relative Assertion Nervous System Physiology Falsity

Author:Franz Joseph Gall