#dependence

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. ↗

— David Cameron

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The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#deficit #dependence #financial #funds #only

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#best #between #classes #country #dependence

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability. ↗

— John Cornyn

#attorney #attorney general #basic #deserve #general

Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#added #always #american #associated #been

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#alternative #deliberate #dependence #develop #end

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#after #away #chief #financial #independence

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#along #border #border security #declined #energy

Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, you are not. I have always been comfortable with my own aloneness as an inner source of love, joy, truth, silence and wholeness. When we depend on other people, it becomes a bondage - instead of a freedom. I took this sunday as a meditation to be consciously alone, and to accept all feelings of pain, of not being loved and the fear of being nobody that would come up during the meditation. This meditation goes up and down during the day: at certain moments, I can totally accept my aloneness. It feels fine to accept that I am alone and that I am nobody. At other moments, I feel the pain of not being loved, when the meditation brings up how dependence on other people is a barrier to totally accept my aloneness. I take a coffee at a restaurant. I am the only person that sits alone in the restaurant, while the other guests are couples and families eating sunday dinner. It brings up painful feelings of not being loved and wanting to be needed by other people, when I see how much people cling to each other in the couples and the families. Escaping your aloneness through relationships and needing other people's attention through being a teacher, a politician or by being rich or famous, are ways of escaping the pain of aloneness. But then the relationships are not really love. Only when you are capable of being alone, you can really love. When we can be alone, we discover the inner source of love, which is our true nature. When we can be alone, it open the door to be one with the Whole. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#awareness #dependence #egoless #fame #fear

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally. ↗

— Lena Headey

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