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“It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.”

People May Body Action House Wish Understood Independent Ill Valuable Branches Opposition Considering Legislation Deliberate Preventing Hasty

Author:John A. Macdonald

“many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.”

People Thinking Giving Has Beens Made Matter Order Opportunity Wish Leadership Study Skills Training Independent Management Data Acquire Initiative Independent Thinking

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels on anyone whom they wish to destroy. ... [Academic professionals are the only person competant to differentiate between honest independents and the Communists.] This is our responsibility. It is not a pleasant task. But if it is left to outsiders, the distinction is not likely to be made and those independent critics of social institutions among us who are one of the glories of a true university could be silenced.”

“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

“Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.”

Knows World Real Reason Character Wish Plans Events Machines Independent Creator Planning Organisms

Book:THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN

Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN

“Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.”

Children Littles Able Form Wish Bits Independent Accidents Selfish Sibling Syndromes Only Child

Author:Carrie Underwood

“The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.”

World Needs Wish Existence Comfort Independent Terror Defense Family Life Homely

Author:Christopher Lasch

“Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.”

Children Long Ideas Care Young Wish Parent Teach Our Children Independent Train Take Care Vain Your Children Long Life Fretting

Author:J. C. Ryle

“I just wish there was more media that was trailblazing and independent. And, this to me is a big danger right now in this set up is you've got these corporations, like the New York Times, and Amazon now with the Washington Post, and Time-Warner, and all of them seem to be the same! This is what's frightening!”

Bigs Seems Wish Media Danger New York Right Now Independent Posts Corporations Frightening New York Times Amazon Trailblazing

Author:Matt Drudge

“We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside an independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence.”

Want Two Country States Helping Wish Causes Solutions Essence Independent Agree Israel Palestinian

Author:Angela Merkel

“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 first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.”

Men Want Firsts Persons Doe Earth Law Wish Goal Moral Rights Duty Depends Wise Words Ego Independent Independence Philosopher Obligation Novelists Prime Wise Women Moral Law Moral Obligation

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.”

People Character Wish Sides Pay Dog Roots Cat Independent Acquire Pet Homage Salute

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.”

Littles Wish Stars Waiting Can Do Areas Independent Fellows Wide Aids Astronomy Observation Horizon Observers Astronomers Meteorologists

Book:Message from the President of the United States: Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of July 24, 1854, the Fourth Meteorological Report of Prof. James P. Espy

Source: Message from the President of the United States: Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of July 24, 1854, the Fourth Meteorological Report of Prof. James P. Espy

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”