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		Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.
	
	  Geoff Mulgan Geoff Mulgan
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		There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.
	
	  Henry Rollins
			
			
				Black Flag Henry Rollins
			
			
				Black Flag
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		Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
	
	  Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore
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		Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.
	
	  Jay Duplass Jay Duplass
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		If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point of being alive?
	
	  Stephen Curry Stephen Curry
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		Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.
	
	  Stephen Covey Stephen Covey
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		An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
	
	  William Minto William Minto
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		You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
	
	  Ray Liotta Ray Liotta
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		Companies like Papa John's are largely a collection of small independent businesses.
	
	  John Schnatter John Schnatter
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		Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.
	
	  Sarah Palin Sarah Palin
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		Time,--the most independent of all things.
	
	  William Hazlitt William Hazlitt
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		Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
	
	  Epictetus Epictetus
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		The idea that an independent Scotland - having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the U.K. - would expect the rest of the U.K. to be a lender of last resort, and of course be kind to them, doesn't make any sense.
	
	  Johann Lamont Johann Lamont
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		I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.
	
	  Vinnie Jones Vinnie Jones
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		The more a man is successful in getting out or coming out from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control or dominate the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.
	
	  African Spir African Spir
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		As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. A free press ensures the flow of information to the public, and let me say, during a time when the role of government in our lives and in our enterprises seems to grow every day - both at home and abroad - ensuring the vitality of a free and independent press is more important than ever.
	
	  Mike Pence Mike Pence
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		Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.
	
	  Mike Leigh Mike Leigh
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		There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
	
	  Rebecca Traister Rebecca Traister
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		From my mom and dad, because they're happily married for a long time: Just listen. Listen to him. I'm so independent and driven and stubborn. Just let him talk. It's about not being so stubborn and having to win every argument. My parents set a great example. They love each other and take care of each other so much.
	
	  Erin Andrews Erin Andrews
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		God thus excludes the world; he is only its cause; in no sense is he effect, of himself or anything else. Pantheism (better, "pandeism," for again it is not really the theos that is described) means that God is the integral totality of ordinary cause-effects, and that there, is no super-cause independent of ordinary causes and effects.
	
	  Charles Hartshorne Charles Hartshorne
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		As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.
	
	  Rene Dubos Rene Dubos
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		We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!
	
	  Richard Trumka Richard Trumka