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• I want it all and I want it now.

  Freddie Mercury

  Want, Instant Gratification

  Song: I Want It All

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• I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.

  Anton Walbrook

  Past, Adore, Restful

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• There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

  Napoleon Hill

  Riches, Method, Rendering

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Reading, Wonderful

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.194, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

  Octavia Butler

  Inspiration, Writing, Persistence

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Bloodchild: And Other Stories”, p.128, Open Road Media

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• Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

  Esi Edugyan

  Glory, Made

  Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Pleasure, Uncertain

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• I know I'm honest and dependable, usually. I know I'm always dependable for my wife. I'm always at home and I'm always there to help.

  Joe Lando

  Home, Wife, Helping

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• In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

  Sei Shonagon

  Two, Literature, Flesh

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• Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.

  Ion Tiriac

  Player, Get Over, Coaches

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• Love is timeless and dependable. It's a safe place where I can breathe.

  Jo Dee Messina

  Love Is, Safe, Breathe

  "Jo Dee Messina: On Turning Life into Song". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

  Barry Humphries

  Art, Past, Thinking

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• Maybe miracles are given not to prove anything, but simply to remind us that the physical world is not so solid and real and dependable as we think.

  Dwight Longenecker

  Real, Thinking, Miracle

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• You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is creative, marriage is destructive. But love is not dependable: this moment it may be there and the next moment gone. And man wants permanent things; he is obsessed with permanent things. He wants security, safety, he wants to cling. Hence love is not reliable, so he created marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Men

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• There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Pieces, Erratic

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• Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

  Lauren Oliver

  Animal, Unhappy, Erratic

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)

  Gordon Allport

  Science, Long, Goal

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• We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, School, Army

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.63, A&C Black

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• There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

  Peter Greenaway

  Opportunity, Emotional, Expectations

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• In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

  Louis Susman

  War, America, Allies

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• Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Positive Thinking, Worst Case Scenario, Anxiety

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• Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

  Napoleon Hill

  Mean, People, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.128, Penguin

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• Let your Neshuma (soul) be the real inspiration. You have a soul, you have a spirit, don't lock it in a box and forget it... Let's make this a better world... We dare not assume that the next century will have less hatred or murders than the past centuries. How can we? Are the weapons of tomorrow less harmful? Are the leaders more dependable? Are our peace treaties more durable? Are our ethics more honorable? Time is running out... We must hurry.

  Benjamin M. Friedman

  Running, Real, Inspiration

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• The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

  Warren G. Harding

  Intelligent, Government, America

  Inaugural address, March 4, 1921.

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• The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable!

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Men, Essence

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