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“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)

“For me as a woman pride is not really sin, but rather something that I still have to learn. The male conception of the person who rebels against God by affirming himself, by acting proudly, arrogantly, and without constraints, is not a woman's concern. Rather, we women are in danger of not developing any pride, of never becoming independent, of constantly remaining within too narrow boundaries.”

Persons Stills Sin Acting Danger Pride Becoming Concern Independent Males Boundaries Developing Conception Rebel Constraints Affirming Becoming Independent

Book:Thinking about God: an introduction to theology

Source: Thinking about God: an introduction to theology

“What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad.”

People Thinking Stills Jobs Millions Cutting Concern Independent Mail Lots Of Money Wretched Guardian Daily Mail

Author:Alastair Campbell

“I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.”

Today Interest Policy Judgment Concern India Bases Regard Independent Remains Statements Enlightened Relevant Foreign Policy Sole National Interests

Author:Manmohan Singh

“My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.”

“Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.”

“To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.”

Men Needs Giving Feelings Would Be Age Law Passion Nations Waiting Enjoy Needed Glory Concern Independent Fruit Superiors Labour Nevertheless Fullness Affinity Superior Intelligence

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced....Public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weaken pubic support....When the doubt or fear expressed concerns not the success of a particular enterprise but of the whole social plan, it must be treated even more as sabotage.”

“A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”

World Way Long Individual Community Compassion Meditation Concern Independent Fundamentals Better Place Long Way Concern For Others

Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only.”

States Government Nations United Liberty Theory Concern Constitution Independent Wisest

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)

“If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.”

Ifs Design Products Concern Responsible Independent Gross

Author:Victor Papanek