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America has always been a country that thrives on hard work, thrift and self-reliance.

You don't need to be self-sufficient to be free--it's good enough to be self-reliant, as long as you're careful with debt.

On the verge of the new semester, both universities and incoming freshmen are trying to make independence the priority.

chairman Mao might have spoken with understandable pride of his policy of "self-reliance" .

And the rich world, troubled as it is, must never give up in its effort to help the poor one to stand on its own feet.

This phase is often called bootstrapping, meaning when firms make do with few resources.

They, you know, might be boot-strapping life on planets, trying to terra-form and kind of spread civilization.

Unable to Borrow capital to modernize its plant, the company was forced to pull itself up by its own bootlaces.

The objective of good development aid is to put aid out of business by building this self-reliance.