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Forbid this child had an authentic, self-derived interest in science that hadn’t been formally assigned to her!

From Scientific American • May 3, 2013

The burning Bush and the Name of the Lord proclaimed the same great truth of self-derived, self-determined, timeless, undecaying Being.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander

We have no independent, self-derived, or self-sustained life.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

As its being is self-derived and original, it must be itself a substance.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

In the earlier work, as we saw, the theories were postulated first, and the actions were measured against those self-derived standards of right and wrong.

From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick