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Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion. -- Peter Coyote
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Interdependence is a higher value than independence -- Stephen Covey
Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make -- Stephen Covey
I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. -- Tony Blair
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. -- Henry Van Dyke
Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all. -- Erik Erikson
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. -- Anais Nin
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. -- Thomas Merton
Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all. -- Pope John Paul II
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence. -- Margaret Mead
Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence. -- Stephen Covey
Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence -- Jenna Jameson
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. -- Thomas Merton
Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence. -- Peter Senge
Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man. -- Walter Russell
in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence. -- Indira Gandhi
Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work. -- John Katzenbach
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. -- Potter Stewart
We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well. -- William J. Clinton
There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual. -- Pete Newell
Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind. -- Mary Hunter Austin
Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals. -- Gichin Funakoshi
We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience. -- Gary Zukav
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence. -- Cory Booker
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. -- Christian Lous Lange
The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions. -- Daisaku Ikeda
There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles the rich. In the process, both are sanctified. -- Marion G. Romney
In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the world, particularly with the other East Asian economies. -- Toshihiko Fukui
Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable. -- Peter Mandelson
I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism. -- Vinessa Shaw
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. -- Jared Diamond
Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment. -- David Blunkett
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. -- Wilhelm Ostwald
Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era. -- Eduardo Paes
What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative. -- Kevin Rudd
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. -- William J. Clinton
I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. -- Hannah Arendt
There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art. -- Gish Jen
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order. -- Taisen Deshimaru
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. -- Desmond Tutu
The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I. -- Dick Morris
In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy. -- Max de Pree
You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore. -- William J. Clinton
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information. -- Marshall McLuhan
Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community -- Tony Blair
Leaders in business and government, who fail to see the holistic interdependence of our planet, are destined to cause its demise. -- Said Elias Dawlabani
Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence. -- Nhat Hanh
Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value. -- Jaron Lanier
The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. -- Annette Simmons
We're either going to be driven to a whole new sense of radical interdependence where we are, in the Bible's words, our neighbor's keeper, or destroy ourselves. -- John Shelby Spong
The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women. -- Deborah Tannen
In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products. -- Herbert Hoover
The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it. -- Paul Harvey
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed -- Jonathon Porritt
Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history. -- William J. Clinton

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