#dependent

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assessment #associated #derive #enterprises #extremists

We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#agree #alongside #because #both #bring

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#believes #defend #die #force #independence

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him. ↗

— William Minto

#belief #doubt #him #independent #joy

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#been #belonged #company #easy #graduated

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#especially #feelings #i #i think #independent

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself. ↗

— Don Nickles

#defend #had #i #independent #israel

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#alternative #dependent #each #made #nations

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#economically #interdependent #longer #national #national sovereignty

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#around #been #country #features #i