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• In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Paper, May

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• Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Men, Desire

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.392, Courier Corporation

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• The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Duration, Our Lives

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• Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

  Allan Bloom

  Children, Character, Weakness

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

  Bill Gates

  House, Energy, Today

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on How to Stop Global Warming". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. December 9, 2010.

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• I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Women, Thinking, Doe

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XII, 1840.

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• Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

  John Ruskin

  Half, Language, Ifs

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.9

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• All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

  James F. Cooper

  Character, Greatness, Individuality

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Essay by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Mistake, Science, Opportunity

  "The New Industrial State". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XVIII, Section 5, p. 208, 1967.

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• Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Made, Complexes

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• I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

  Steve Almond

  Children, Hard Times, Cracks

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.8, Algonquin Books

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• I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Believe, Civilization

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• Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Equality, Men

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• An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

  Arthur Miller

  God, Children, Believe

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• The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Information, Individual, Command

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• ... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.

  Samuel Florman

  Technology, Survival, Environment

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• Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Blessed is the person who has some congenial work, some occupation in which to place one's heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces that are in him or her.

  John Burroughs

  Work, Blessed, Heart

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• She's vibrator dependent.

  Mojo Nixon

  Friendship

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• There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?

  Susan Jacoby

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.

  Willard Gaylin

  Animal, Intelligent, Choices

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• The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

  Olympia Brown

  Science, Simple, Law

  1895 Sermon in Wisconsin, c.13 Jan.

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• People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

  Ben Elton

  People, Littles, Firsts

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• A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
  A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
  A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
  A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

  William Watson Purkey

  Education, Jobs, School

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• Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

  A.C. Grayling

  Life, Integrity, Real

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• When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

  David Parnas

  Bridges, Knowing, Safety

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