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• Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

  Andrew Murray

  Humility, Pride, Loss

  Andrew Murray (2009). “Humility”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Government, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (1835). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.221

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• Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be absolutely necessary for the purpose, does not appear to be susceptible of any precise calculation; and must depend on a variety of circumstances with which it may be connected. Let us consult experience, the guide that ought always to be followed, whenever it can be found.

  James Madison

  Government, Degrees, Doe

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.259, Coventry House Publishing

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• The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Oneness, Decision

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• At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

  Michael Dorris

  Love, Loyalty, Grief

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• We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Sight, Environment

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• The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Civilization, People

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• Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Character, Our Society, Ownership

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.23, IHS Press

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• Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

  Barack Obama

  Generations, Fuel, Fossils

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist.

  Georges Cuvier

  Law, Harmony, Metaphysical

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• Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Children, War, Giving

  "'For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind'". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

  Andrew Napolitano

  Philosophy, People, Political

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• Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence.

  Herman E. Daly

  Independent, Technology, Men

  Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.125, Island Press

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• When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.

  Billy Graham

  Thankfulness, Recognition, Polite

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Nov 24, 2011

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• Prayer means dependence on the Lord.

  Joseph Prince

  Love, Prayer, Mean

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• For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Oil, Decision, Soldier

  "Oil Prices Are Dropping. So What?" by T. Boone Pickens, www.politico.com. November 5, 2014.

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• Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

  James S. Coleman

  Children, School, Successful

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• The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  People, Weakness, Benefits

  Thomas Francis Meagher (1853). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”, p.83

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• One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Aggravation, Priorities, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

  Ray Stedman

  Spirit, Christianity, Behavior

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• We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.

  Alex Pacheco

  Animal, Rights, Retarded

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• Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to contemplate over it, why they are fighting. Everything is just an excuse to fight. If you change one excuse, another excuse will be found; if no excuse is left then excuses will be invented, but somehow the fight has to be there.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Couple, Hate

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• The ordinary marriage is an unconscious bondage: you cannot live alone so you become dependent on the other; the other cannot live alone so he or she becomes dependent on you. And we hate the person on which we are dependent; nobody likes to depend on anybody. Our deepest desire is to have freedom, total freedom - and dependence is against freedom.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Hate, Desire

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