Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.
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Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel [which US is set to supply to India if the deal comes through]. However, there would be a requirement for ten-fold increase in nuclear power generation even to attain a reasonable degree of energy self-sufficiency for our country.
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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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Philippians 4:13:
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
(NIV)
I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency].
(AMP)
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
(KJV)
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Proverbs 3:9:
Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops
(NIV)
Honor the Lord with your capital and sufficiency [from righteous labors] and with the firstfruits of all your income; [Deut. 26:2; Mal. 3:10; Luke 14:13, 14.](AMP)
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
(KJV)
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1 Timothy 6:6:
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
(NIV)
[And it is, indeed, a source of immense profit, for] godliness accompanied with contentment (that contentment which is a sense of inward sufficiency) is great and abundant gain.
(AMP)
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
(KJV)
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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