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“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.”

Source: The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell

“In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.”

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Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.”

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Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess

“Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.”

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Author:Chin-Ning Chu

“When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.”

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Book:Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

Source: Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you.”

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Author:Bob Proctor

“A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

“Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical means like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.”