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• Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. -- Emerso
• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
  With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do....
• To-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Self-Reliance...
• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
  With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do....
• Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
  -- Patricia Sampso...
• Humility is the better part of wisdom, and is most becoming in man.
  But let no one disparage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness....
• We teach what are called the vigorous virtues -- determination, self-reliance, self-control, and courage.
  This is achieved through the application of mental stress, physical rigor, minute regulation of behavior, pressures, hazards and psychological bonding....
• The reliance on vendors is a good thing.
• Yes, but which self do you want to be?