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Quilombos were formed over centuries by enslaved people who escaped forced labor to create isolated, self-subsistence communities in remote forests and mountain ranges or on islands like Ilha de Mare.

From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2022

To believe in Nature, in its self-existence, its self-subsistence, its self-action, its eternity, infinity, and materiality, and in that only, is Affirmative Atheism.*

From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by Holyoake, George Jacob

Its self-subsistence is derived from the nature of its form, which does not supervene to the things subsisting, but gives actual existence to the matter and makes it subsist as an individual.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

"Substance" can be applied to God in the sense of signifying self-subsistence.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The only existence of such a reality can be its own self-subsistence.

From An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by Jones, W. Tudor (William Tudor)