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“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

“Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.”

“Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be the strangest thing of all, absolutely incomprehensible. For we are not familiar with this kind of living. We do not have solitary, isolated creatures. It is beyond our imagination to conceive of a single form of life that exists alone and independent, unattached to other forms.”

Ifs Kind Would Be Form Imagination Creatures Independent Familiar Spots Just One Isolated Solitary Organisms Living Organisms

Author:Lewis Thomas

“To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.”

Would Be Term Chance Common Independent

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.”

Men World Humans Would Be Law Religion Force Understanding Independent Institutions Substance Cheat Paramount

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.”

Would Be Life Is Existence Relation Independent Preserves Dependent Egoism Haughty Surly Make Others Happy

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

“I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.”

Thinking Knows Would Be Strong Roles Mom Models Smart Independent My Mom Role Models Independent Women Hepburn Good Role Models

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.”

People Would Be Decision Independent Grateful Awful Establishment Academic My Future Hinges So Grateful

Author:Jane Jacobs

“I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger movies. If I could make movies that carry great characters and great performances and great pathos, and can have an explosion or two, that would be fine with me.”

Ifs World Want Two Character Reality Would Be Film Fine Performances Bigger Independent Enjoyed If I Could Explosions Blast Independent Film Great Character Pathos Great Performance

Author:Matthew Lillard

“If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.”

“You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.”

World Littles Character Would Be Film Actors Felt Independent Fortunate Intimate Massive Independent Film

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.”

Use Motivational Would Be Language Difficult Justice Leader Findings India Independent Grain Foreign Language

Author:Vallabhbhai Patel

“My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent.”

Made Would Be Care Jobs Felt Effort Saws Team Duty Mom Needed Dad Promise My Family Independent My Mom Someday Pulling Team Effort

Author:Carrie Underwood

“My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.”

Source: CPC [publications].

“If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.”

Ifs Ideas Would Be Given Existence Accepting Independent Creator Buddhist Explanation

Author:Dalai Lama

“Scotland has always been independent. We have our own legal system, our own culture; I don't see the issue. We are different and I think we should celebrate those differences within the union. I can see what would be lost, but don't necessarily see what would be gained by breaking away. What does upset me is that I can't vote in Scotland.”

Thinking Should Doe I Can Different Would Be Culture Lost Differences Issues Vote Independent Unions Celebrate Upset Scotland Legal System Breaking Away

Author:Damian Barr

“I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Important Would Be Mistake Independent Contact Block Palestinian

Author:Ehud Olmert

“The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.”

People Would Be Political Issues Policy Independent Court Branches

Author:Sam Brownback

“The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment.”

Stills Important Would Be Fighting Chance Democracy Missing Independent Important Things Investment Billions Journalism Giants Gates Philanthropy Emerging Institute

Author:Bill Moyers

“Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal government documents. Precisely what they were afraid of was that the "takeover" of South Vietnam by nationalist forces would not be brutal. They feared it would be conciliatory and that there would be successful social and economic development - and that the whole region might work.”

“Allowing an independent and sovereign Iraq could be a nightmare for the United States. It would mean that it would be Shi'ite-dominated, at least if it's minimally democratic. It would continue to improve relations with Iran, just what the United States doesn't want to see. And beyond that, right across the border in Saudi Arabia where most of Saudi oil is, there happens to be a large Shi'ite population, probably a majority.”

Ifs Want Mean States Happens Would Be United United States Relation Independent Majority Democratic Iraq Population Oil Borders Nightmare Iran Allowing Sovereign Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Noam Chomsky

“As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.”

Would Be Felt Space Conditions Planets Materials Cold Scene Advantage Independent Warm Atmosphere Emptiness Dense Containing

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“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

“Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”

Thinking Needs Feels Has Beens Sometimes Character Would Be Night Known Novel Four Nice Loneliness Broken Picks Independent Phones Checks Clock Sunday Sparks Afternoon Panic Wet Taxi Breathless

Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?”

Source: The Will to Believe and Human Immortality

“All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place”

Ifs Men World Should Would Be Rights Independent Feminist Womens Rights Better Place

Author:John Legend

“To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.”

Humans Looks Would Be Age Courses Numbers Events Human Nature Harmony Independent Neighborhood Uniforms Sovereignty Defiance Disregard Continuation

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.”

People Self Would Be Independent Libertarian Defined Collectives Association Counterproductive Self Reliant Anachronism

Author:John Dewey

“I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.”

Source: Ronald Reagan

“The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they are independent and not under the command of the president or the government. The states would control the militia, only when called out into the service of the state, and then the governor would be commander in chief where enumerated in the respective state constitution.”

States Government Would Be President Constitution Independent Command Chiefs Governors Federal Government Commanders Militia Commander In Chief

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country.”

Country Would Be Successful Independent Scotland Independent Country

Author:David Cameron

“If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders from anyone, turned out to be the most willing and cooperative frame-ee in the history of mankind!! Because the evidence of his guilt is so monumental, that he could have just as well gone around with a large sign on his back declaring in bold letters 'I Just Murdered President John F. Kennedy'!!!”

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