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Quotes About Independence

If we're going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees.
~ John Scalzi
Well, let's start with the big one," Creek said. "You're your own nation." Robin considered that for a moment. "For your sake, that had better not be a comment about the size of my ass," she said.   The
~ John Scalzi
Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to "Get Off My Property." News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.   I
~ John Scalzi
She said that we could all fuck ourselves with a rented dick. The same rented dick." "That's my mom," Kiva said.
~ John Scalzi
But individuals are not precise mirrors of their nations. And
~ John Scalzi
I think I'll keep my own opinion out of the 'sale' rack, if it's all the same to you.
~ John Scalzi
it was designed to operate with minimal assistance from humans, who were without exception the moving part most likely to fail.
~ John Scalzi
I'm trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. A nice thing to wonder about when you're thirty." "I don't think it matters what age you are when you figure it out," Brous said. "I think the important thing is to figure it out before someone else tells you what you want to be, and they get it wrong.
~ John Scalzi
In my opinion, the goal of parenthood is to teach your kid how to explore the world and find himself or herself in it; this naturally requires that the focus is on the kid, and not the parent. The parent who is leaping in and mud-wrestling a teacher over a "B" or bribing the local daycare center staff to get their kid in is probably not focused on what the kid needs so much as what the parent thinks he needs to prove.
~ John Scalzi
If we're going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees." "You have a way with mental imagery, General
~ John Scalzi
Kiva considered that she might be developing a thing for Fundapellonan, which on one hand would be a very not-Kiva thing to do, but on the other hand who gave a fuck if it was "not-Kiva," because she wasn't some fucking fictional character destined to do whatever some goddamn hack wanted her to do.
~ John Scalzi
Marquis de Lafayette
~ John Sedgwick
He liked living simply. And he liked living alone. He had grown to dislike physical affection. It was intrusive, and it bullied his self esteem, because he wasn't good at it.
~ John Shirley
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
~ John Steinbeck
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
~ John Steinbeck
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
~ John Steinbeck
But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.
~ John Steinbeck
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
~ John Steinbeck
Regarding thou mayest: And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
~ John Steinbeck
I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.
~ John Steinbeck
Through my own efforts, I am lost most of the time without any help from anyone.
~ John Steinbeck
This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
~ John Steinbeck
I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
~ John Steinbeck
Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus' som'thin' that was his. Som'thin' he could live on and there couldn't nobody throw him off of it.
~ John Steinbeck