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You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste... food stamps or decry dependency.

~Frank Wolf

Topics: Child Constructive Dependency Desperately Failing Food Food Stamps Free Free Market Her Just Market More Mother Must Offer Out Schools Simply Sound Stamps Talk Teachers Trumpet Unions Visit Wants Way Who You

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Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

~Fritz Perls

Topics: Back Dependency Encouragement Everybody Judge Make Makes Need Our Out Praise Self-Esteem Slaves Then Us You Your

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The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

~George Allen

Topics: America Dependency Freedom Government Need People Personal Personal Responsibility Responsibility

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I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.

~George Allen

Topics: Aspiring Based Country Dependency Determine Dictates Down Either Elections Freedom Go Going Government Improving Mandates Opportunities Path Responsibility Think Trajectory

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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

~George Berkeley

Topics: Act Being Created Dependency Existence Find God Ideas Infer Mind My Own Myself Necessarily Own Reason Things

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I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.

~George Pataki

Topics: American American Dream Because Become Benefits Better Changed Dependency Dream Economic Federal Federal Government Good Good People Government Had Interest Job Knew Made Part People State State Government Take Trapped Wanted Were Who Work

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When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.

~George Pataki

Topics: Dependency Fewer Left Million New New York Office Opportunity Over People Replacing State Than Took Welfare Were York

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Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.

~George Will

Topics: Almost Almost All Class Democratic Dependency Entitlement Forever Knows Lifetime Middle Middle Class Party Promoting Those Vocation Welfare

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