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“The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.”

Heart Body Form Individual Understanding Perfect Education Virtue Habit Exercise Independent

Book:Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

Source: Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

“Farther I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites . . . & marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it. For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.”

Heart Country Nations Wish My Heart Thousand Hundred Independent Jew Conquest Dominion Restoring

Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

“There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.”

Heart Important Struggle Democracy Media Independent Presses Diverse Free Press American Democracy

Author:Bill Moyers

“Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.”

Heart Art Choices Three Fronts Tvs Directors Paid Independent Studios Hopefully Paychecks Sundance

Author:Jason Blum

“I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.”

Trying Heart Film Independent Damn Heartache Independent Film

Author:Shane West

“Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.”

People Thinking Giving Heart Hard Spirit Pride Deserve Independent Credit Arrogant Rude Looking Down Mistreat

Author:Joyce Meyer

“A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.”

Heart Democracy Red Independent Presses

Author:Dan Rather

“I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.”

People Men Feels Heart Kind Strong Laughing Safe Intelligent Independent Sexy Driven Sense Of Humor Very Strong Ambitious Make Me Laugh Good Heart Nicole He Makes Me Laugh

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

Heart Littles Home Fear Rooms Powerful Police Independent Soldier Thrown Panic Dictatorship Dictator Mice Forbidden Stirring Unspoken Pedestal Independent Thought Bayonets

Author:Winston Churchill

“Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.”

Ifs World Mind Heart States Chance Knowing Evidence Independent Despite Optimistic Hopeful State Of Mind Persistent Keep The Faith Being Optimistic

Author:William Sloane Coffin

“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”

Men Heart Hate Feminism Empowerment I Hate Independent Feminist Women Empowerment Empowered Women Women Strength Inspirational Feminist I Hate Men

Author:Anais Nin

“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…

“Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.”

Should Heart Play Strong Nations Roles Europe Independent Prosperous Poland Great Nations

Author:George H. W. Bush

“I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." -Alex”

“I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.”

Ifs Writing Heart Moving Desire Song Broken Independent Broken Heart Being In Love Independent Women Being Independent Woman

Author:Katerina Graham