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To me, DIY means minimizing dependency on what others make for me.
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.
Work always triumphs over dependency, as anyone who is engaging in the economy can attest.
Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.
The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.
There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.
As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.
Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.
I don't like anything with too much dependency. Children are very dependent, which is probably why we never had them.
Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.
We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.
Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Sometimes well-intentioned programs can lead to dependency and cause us to forget we have what it takes to attain the American dream.
Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve.
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.
We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
The significant disparity in work opportunities for people with disabilities is the direct result of government programs and policies that propagate dependency.
Now, white America is using blacks, exploiting them, enabling their dependency so that they can say, we are innocent of racism, and therefore we are legitimate.
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.
We might enjoy essays, TED talks, and even Facebook posts bemoaning our dependency on tech, but judging by our enthusiastic adoption of these services, we're all in.
We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.
With increasing poverty, welfare dependency and violence in the United States, religion and religious organizations have an important role to play combating societal problems.
When I was very young, I had to start to working to help my family, while my friends were studying. Since then, I have felt the urgency to escape from every dependency situation.
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
People can't stay out of their cars. I do think we have a real problem staying out of our automobiles. We have a real dependency on them, and it may be for more than just transportation.
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.
Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.
I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.
If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.
I think it's human nature that if we don't have our own family, we will create a family, because it's human nature, and it's that element of trust and dependency and love and all of those sort of things.
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.
Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.
Dubai has got very little oil; it is Abu Dhabi that has got the oil. Dubai has very small resources, and it is running out, so the government's plan has been to relieve Dubai of any dependency on oil at all by 2010.
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.
Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.
How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
States with better-educated citizens also see economic benefits. These states have better luck recruiting and retaining quality employers, and they enjoy lower overall rates of unemployment, poverty, and welfare dependency.