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Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

—Louis D. Brandeis

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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

—Oscar Wilde

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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

—Charles Austin Beard

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

—Matsuo Basho

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Independence? That's a middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

—George Bernard Shaw

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He'd mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world that it took an e-mail to remind him what it was like to have a real conversation.

—Jennifer E. Smith in This is What Happy Looks Like

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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

—Margo Kaufman

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Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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