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"Whoever has inhabited the United states must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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"A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants." »Alexander Pope
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"It is easy enough to define what the commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime." »Elizabeth II
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"The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide." »Ben Bova
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"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm." »Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour." »Winston Churchill
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"I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin." »George Wither
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." »Douglas Adams
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility." »William Cobbett
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"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue." »Greek Proverb
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"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it." »John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
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"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between states regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the states on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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"I can't see myself changing nappies and cooking dinner for too long. I'm too independent to live off a man's earnings." »Manisha Koirala
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"Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe." »Albert Schweitzer
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"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United states, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." »John Swinton
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"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it." »George Farquhar
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"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United states than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge." »J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"
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"There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves." »George Washington
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"Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people." »Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
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"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea." »Richard Hofstadter
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"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education." »Paul E. Gray
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"There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation." »Albert Einstein
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost." »Thomas J. Watson
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"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." »Thomas Jefferson
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