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Letter "I" » independent
«It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Education,
Mind
| Keywords:
distrustful, independent, nearly, The Independent
«It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.»
«For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bustle, bustles, bustling, definitions, dwelling, ebb, ebbed, ebbing, ebbs, enjoying, enjoyment, establish, fleeting, flow away, idler, idlers, immense, impartial, incognito, independent, intense, lend, minor, observer, passionate, prince, spirits, The Observer, throng, thronged, thronging, unseen
«I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . .»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| Keywords:
bird, ensnare, ensnared, free, human being, independent, net, netting, The Independent
«Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Labor
| Keywords:
capital, consideration, deserves, existed, independent, prior, The Independent, with consideration
«I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Reality,
Science
| Keywords:
and so forth, electron, electrons, forth, independent, location, Locations, looking at, measured, measurement, measurements, particle, separate, Separate reality, spin, spins, spin out, spun
«How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
admirably, appropriate, fathom, fathomed, fathoms, Human thought, independent
«In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
bourgeois, capital, dependent, independent, individuality
«In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Government,
History,
War
| Keywords:
governments, hatched, hatches, hatching, independent, interests, pernicious
«It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Generosity
| Keywords:
frank, franker, frankest, Franks, Frank and, generous, independent, unhampered
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