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I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.

As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a vast continent, with its common hardships and uncommon duties; generations of mutual respect and support, and an abiding friendship that grows ever stronger.

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

True originator, innovator and creator,_x000D__x000D_Thinkin' independent but I'm sayin' something major.

These niggaz ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government._x000D__x000D_Don't matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican,_x000D__x000D_Niggaz politickin' the street, get into beef,_x000D__x000D_Start blastin'...now a new cat is executive chief.

So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!

Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.

Do you press the "pause" button - the "until" button in life by saying "I can't be happy until..."? All this accomplishes is a delay in your entry into your innate state of happiness, which is independent of outer circumstances. So press the "play" button and rejoice in the now-ness of the moment!

Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.