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“Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.”

Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840

“The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.”

People Believe Ends States Helping Nations Goal United Principles Achieve Security Creation Acceptance Independent Neighbor Occupation Palestinian United Nations Peace And Security

Author:Kofi Annan

“Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.”

Long War Ends Fighting Struggle Sacrifice Independent Painful Resistance Vietnam Vietnam War

Author:Ho Chi Minh

“Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.”

Knows Firsts Ends Reason Steps Sight Independent Distance First Steps Traveled Escalators

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from its independent thinkers: Striking all existing public and private debt from the books across the "entire planet"; elimination of all international borders; free college education; a guaranteed "living wage" for all regardless of employment; an end to free trade; trillions in additional spending for infrastructure and ecological restoration; and ending the fossil fuel economy.”

“Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.”

Knows Want Doe Ends States Answers Demand Independent Israel Aspiration Occupation Establishment Aggression Palestinian Israeli Accommodate Gaza

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.”

People Want Humans Ends States Order Sides Human Beings Dignity Independent Misery Palestinian Israeli

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.”

Needs Ends Strong Intelligent Independent Warm Admire Sensitive Sense Of Humor Sensuous

Author:Pam Dawber

“The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.”

Ends Levels Awareness Infinite Independent Dimensions Psychedelic Residents Interconnectedness

Book:Art Psalms

Source: Art Psalms

“If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.”

Ifs Ends States Sides Effort Accepting Steps Serious Percent Independent Terror Israel Terrorism Ministers Prime Palestinian Prime Minister

Author:Ariel Sharon

“What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the creative people in the business realize that. It's not about that. Yeah, we all want to be successful, but we all just want to create and we want to tell the stories. We want to continue creating the opportunities to be able to continue doing what we love. So, at the end of the day, I feel like it's a win-win for everybody to be able to make these independent films.”

“An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.”

Ends Action Independent Blind Instinct Tendencies Agents Consideration

Book:Miscellaneous Lectures and Reviews

Source: Miscellaneous Lectures and Reviews

“I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.”

Ifs Way Made Ends Done Enough Actors Given Deals Couple Independent Dollars Profit Scales

Author:Kevin Kline

“We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.”

Ifs Ends Self Government School Independent Independence Court Protection Patronage Self Reliant

Book:Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation

Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation

“As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.”

“At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a two million dollar independent film. I did a lot more physical work than I'd probably have to do for a two million dollar independent film with four months of training and stuff. But as far as the character's psychology or emotional life goes, I treat it just the same.”

“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.”

Ifs Should May Ends Government Choices Nations Loses Party Liberty Danger Fairs Vote Sight Independent Election Majority Corruption Determined Purity Voting Virtuous Unfaithful Artifice

Author:John Adams

“I sort of don't believe in trends. I know that they exist, but what is important at the end of the day is to remain independent”

Knows Believe Important Ends Independent Don't Believe The End Of The Day Trends

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.”

People Ends Used Identity Independent Disaster Resentment Hostage

Author:Elton John

“My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.”

Ends Artist Certain Decision Deals Groups Worst Members Musician Aspect Independent Sake Compromise Best Business Business Decisions

Author:Ziggy Marley

“I've seen people who don't have deals get features from people that labels can't even get features from, because you gotta show face and be in-tune with these guys who still have that independent mind set as far how you hustle yourself. Because they only really care at the end of the day about the dollas.”

People Mind Stills Ends Shows Care Faces Guy Deals Independent Labels Features The End Of The Day Tunes Hustle Mind Set

Author:Kid Ink

“On an independent film you're lucky if you get one, but ostensibly the job is the same. There's very little difference, apart from the knowledge that there's a captive audience at the end of it - which you can't always guarantee with a movie.”

Ifs Littles Ends Jobs Film Differences Audience Lucky Independent Guarantees Captives Independent Film

Author:Charles Dance

“Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these were big social transitions in which there was a movement on the ground in which a lot of people died, but it also took an independent political party.”

People Ifs Looks Ends Bigs Political Social Party Struggle Movement Gains Labor Vote Died Independent Slavery Transition Political Parties Right To Vote Labor Movement

Author:Jill Stein

“I think most of the time with independent films, you don't know where it's gonna end up. I've done a number of films that may never see the light of day, so it ends up being exclusively about the content, material, the characters and the story. Things that you maybe wouldn't get an opportunity to do otherwise. So, as an actor, obviously it's so different.”

Thinking Knows May Different Ends Done Character Stories Light Film Actors Opportunity Numbers Materials Independent Independent Film

Author:Alison Brie

“'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful technologies that allow for "action at a distance" that aggregate apparently negligible acts into powerful forces that are transforming fundamental planetary systems. In this sense 'the anthropocene' refers to a period in which nature as an independent autonomous domain comes to an end or is under serious threat.”

World Way Humans Ends Action Force Powerful Technology Serious Periods Independent Fundamentals Distance Threat Population Domain Transforming Autonomous Human Population

Author:Dale Jamieson

“Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.”

Thinking Mind Mean Ends Film Pay Right Now Pressure Independent Entertainment Corporate Filmmaker Confused Excess Marketplace Independent Film Means To An End

Author:Robert Redford

“...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.”

People Ifs Thinking Ends Sometimes Helping Needed Independent Needed Help

Book:Just Ella

Source: Just Ella

“Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.”

Firsts Heart Littles Ends Stories Wish Natural Steps Tears Paper Praise Breaths Independent First Steps Wrapping

Book:LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

Source: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.”

Inspirational Ends Hate Fighting Race Positive I Hate Independent Equality Discrimination Manifestation Apartheid Anti Discrimination

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.”

Needs Ends Kids Leader Independent Raised Be Good Spoiled Good Leader Pampered

Author:Amy Chua

“Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.”

Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer

“Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.”

Source: VLADIMIR PUTIN: Munich

“The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.”

“Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.”

Ends Politics College Married Vote Independent Educated Married Women

Author:Celinda Lake

“Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.”

World Persons Real Ends Reason Helping Reality Process Simple Information Pure Intellectual Independent Strive Pursuit Plato Strife Sensuous Dialectics

Book:Republic

Source: Republic