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“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

Mean Made Culture Courses Individual Given Process Parent Quality Steps Groups Civilization Independent Division Cellular

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your corporate parent. Basically, you do all the work for years, blowing up an artist - you discover them, blow them up, you build their fan base. And then that artist is like, "Okay, now I'm here. Now I want more. I want to be bigger." And you're either going to be able to accommodate them, you're going to be able to figure out how to take that step with them, or you're going to lose them.”

Ifs Want Years Able Artist Parent Loses Steps Team Fans Worst Figures Majors Okay Bigger Independent Blow Labels Corporate Farms Accommodate Blowing Up

Author:El-P

“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

“It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.”

Firsts Whole Jobs Loss Effort Steps Team Direct Organization Aim Independent Management Profit Selfish Damage First Steps Components Clarification

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“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

“There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.”

“The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive how distinctly it places in a true and just light the mutual relations and connexion of the various steps of mathematical analysis; how clearly it separates those things which are in reality distinct and independent, and unites those which are mutually dependent.”

Reality Light Process Results Steps Relation Independent Various Mathematical Perceive Analysis Dependent Mutual Engines Connexion Mathematical Analysis

Author:Ada Lovelace

“I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.”

Trying Believe Littles Film I Believe Stuff Chance Steps Scene Independent Right Thing Reincarnation Take A Chance Doing The Right Thing Independent Film Independent Women

Author:Patrick Warburton

“No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency”

Source: Washington's Political Legacies: With a Biographical Outline of His Life and Character

“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…

“The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.”

Men Should Steps Five Danger Type Highest Overcoming Independent Tyranny Resistance Threshold Free Man Servitude

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.”

Children Natural Steps Development Independent Independence Conquest

Author:Maria Montessori

“Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.”

Years Firsts Done Speak Walks Steps Path Intelligent Independent Independence Complexes Significant Impressive Converses Years Of Life

Author:Maria Montessori

“That first apartment was a big step. It has a lot to do with being independent.”

Firsts Bigs Steps Independent Apartment

Author:Irene Cara

“I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into prison. Now I am taking that step; and true freedom is that much nearer.”

Long States Steps Intellectual Independent Prison True Freedom

Author:Liu Xia

“There was a time when women activists asked men to stand up for their rights. But this time we will do it by ourselves. I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women’s rights, but I am focusing on women to be independent and fight for themselves.”

Men Fighting Social Steps Rights Independent Activist Womens Rights

Author:Malala Yousafzai