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“The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.”

“The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.”

Men Wells May Science Spirit Names Energy Nations Rooms Genius Higher Demand Authority Highest Intellectual Independence Faculty Routine Spheres Newton Prescriptions

Author:Matthew Arnold

“That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.”

Spirit Left Loss Awareness Discipline Adversity Independence Toughness

Author:Gary Player

“The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.”

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Book:Antonio Gramsci

Source: Antonio Gramsci

“The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.”

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.”

Whole Spirit Independence British Cruelty Persistence Unconscious Apathy Efficient Manly Calculating Prototype Anglo Saxon Colonists Robinson Crusoe

Author:James Joyce

“Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.”

Source: Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random

“Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.”

Spirit Order Social Numbers Groups Essentials Independence Rebellion Good Health Social Order Caprice Deference Ethnic Groups Delinquents

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.”

World Looks Past Spirit Individual Poor Views Stage Regret Mark Independence Point Of View Artistic Substitutes Glamour Present Day Old World Individual Freedom Festivities

Author:Flora Thompson

“If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.”

Ifs Mean Spirit Politics Party Liberty Support Blood Cost Independence Treasure Locals Demon Far Away Reproach

Book:The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

“Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.”

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Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.”

People Thinking Heart Has Beens Home Able Together Spirit Effort Cat Independence Curious Guardian Emblems

Book:Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives

Source: Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives

“the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.”

Humans Spirit Artist Independence Human Spirit

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.”

Persons States Government Spirit Independence Separation Declaration Declaration Of Independence

Author:Ron Paul