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“Bjarne Møller, my former boss, says people like me always choose the line of most resistance. It's in what he calls our 'accursed nature'. That's why we always end up on our own. I don't know. I li...”
“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.”
“You are your own refugeThere is no otherYou cannot save anotherYou can only save yourself.”
“Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.”
“…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means.”
“The history of Kurdistan doesn’t just tell us why it hasn’t become independent so far. It also helps to make the case for Kurdistan’s independence. It is a desire founded, not just on some passing ...”
“Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women do when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who ha...”
“Karen had no problem standing up to people. She’d say ‘no’ before the question was even asked.”
“You’ve remained on the battleground, center stage, experiencing life and, what’s more important, experiencing yourself experiencing it. You haven't been reduced to a logistical strategy for somebod...”
“You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.”
“Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?”
“It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.”
“Jo couldn’t even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for s...”
“I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else....”
“If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her,...”
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?”
“Voyager upon life's sea: - To yourself be true And whate'er your lot may be Paddle your own canoe.”
