Dependent Quotes - Page 30

• Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Humanity, World, Significant

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• The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.

  Jo Coudert

  Circles, People, Trying

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.109, iUniverse

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• Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

  David J. Lieberman

  Self, Feel Good, Crux

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.55, David Lieberman

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• Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by colonization and by unequal treaties, it became an appendage of the "internal market" of Western capitalism.

  Paul A. Baran

  Country, Colonization, Treaties

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 6, (p. 174), 1957.

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• We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

  Erich Fromm

  Lonely, People, Unhappy

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody.

  Sam Shepard

  Different, Lucky, Stories

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• The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.

  Merle Hoffman

  Powerful, Fall, Life And Death

  Merle Hoffman (2012). “Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room”, p.59, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.

  Gabrielle Burton

  Confidence, Fashion, Self

  Gabrielle Burton (1972). “I'm Running Away from Home, But I'm Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women's Liberation”

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• Studies have shown that the terms girl and lady have pejorative connotations: They conjure images of someone weaker and lazier; someone more nervous, afraid, dependent, immature, and inconsiderate; someone less sexy, intelligent, and certainly less charismatic than 'woman.' Indeed, the term woman is overwhelmingly interpreted as more favorable and is most often used to describe adult females who deserve respect.

  Pat Heim

  Girl, Sexy, Intelligent

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• We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Machines, Capable

  Douglas Rushkoff (2010). “Program Or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age”, p.141, OR Books

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• While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

  Aristotle

  Soul, Mind, Body

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Parasites, Housewife

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• Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

  John Mica

  Reform, Joining, Economic

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• If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, People, Doctrine

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, 1927.

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• American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

  Harry Reid

  Government, Balance, Should

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• For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, Long, Chiefs

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.34, Basic Books

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• Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.

  Elliott Abrams

  Israel, Security, Flexibility

  "The Future of an Illusion". www.weeklystandard.com. April 05, 2010.

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• The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

  Roberto Unger

  Self, World, Immediacy

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• While it does, and should, feel good to be appreciated by another person, if you are dependent upon their appreciation to feel good, you will not be able to consistently feel good, because no other person has the ability, or a responsibility, to hold you as their singular, positive object of attention. Your Inner Being, however, the Source within you, always holds you, with no exceptions, as a constant object of appreciation. So if you will tune your thoughts and actions to that consistent Vibration of Well-Being flowing forth from your Inner Being-you will thrive under any and all conditions.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Responsibility, Feel Good

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's so many people dependent on our work for their living or their livelihood. You do something whether it works or whether it doesn't. Once you're committed and you do it, it becomes a part of your life. I wouldn't be sorry about it. I'd learn from it.

  Elliott Gould

  Sorry, People, Committed

  "Elliott Gould on throwing his lunch at Robert Altman and Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.

  Neil Gaiman

  Facts, Stores, Streets

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

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• International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.

  Bryan Fuller

  Home, Games, Broadcasting

  "‘Hannibal’ producer: ‘Maybe a 50/50 chance’ of surviving cancellation". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Discovery, Media

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency.

  David Limbaugh

  Strong, War, Humility

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• Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Writing, Character, Littles

  "Liz Meriwether: Beginning and End of the Fempire". Interview with Kate Branch, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 17, 2010.

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