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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. – Willa Cather

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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. – Willa Cather

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Neighbors
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Willa Cather
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. – Willa Cather

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Sunshine
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Willa Cather
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Independence
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I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman — they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence. – John Keats

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Independence

To be ones own master is to be the slave of self. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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Independence

This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Independence

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. – Thomas Aquinas

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Independence

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How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground—seconds away—thousands of miles away. – Charles A. Lindbergh

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The government of Israel doesnt like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world. – Noam Chomsky

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Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers. – Cesar Chavez

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