self-sufficing

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self-sufficing - able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit"

independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"

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Suppose you were to ask me whether the body is self-sufficing or has wants, I should reply: Certainly the body has wants; for the body may be ill and require to be cured, and has therefore interests to which the art of medicine ministers; and this is the origin and intention of medicine, as you will acknowledge.

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The genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the self-sufficing and therefore self-relying soul.

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The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life.