| My Place of Personal Independence |
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"Dare to be different." --- Nancy Silverman "For many, life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independance.." --- Carla B. James "Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success." --- Samuel Butler "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." --- Henry Ford "If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning." --- Carl Rogers "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps the perfect sweetness and independence of solitude." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together." --- Jane O'Reilly "My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service, and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope." --- Herbert Clark Hoover "There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail." --- Will Rogers "True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right." --- Brigham Young "When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment." --- Warren Farrell "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." --- William J. H. Boetcker, 1916 (often attributed to Lincoln) |
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