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• The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.

  Billy Graham

  Soul, Contentment, Bitter

  Billy Graham (1977). “The Secret of Happiness”, Pocket

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• Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital; it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge; the permanent officials.

  Tony Benn

  Running, Office, Intellectual

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• The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Money, Determination, Men

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• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.

  John McCain

  Country, Money, Reality

  "Kerry, Lavrov agree to work on 'constitutional reform' in Ukraine". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. March 17, 2014.

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• The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic "dependent," reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Marriage, Fashion, Jobs

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• One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Faults, Weakness, Purpose

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• The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.

  Arnold Gesell

  Sex, Children, Social Values

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• The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.

  Arnold Gesell

  Baby, Children, Selfish

  Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg (1951). “Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)”

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• [Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Reflection, Oil

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.

  Warren Beatty

  Son, Different, Needs

  Interview with R. Couri Hay, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2015.

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• I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Running, Long, Enemy

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• Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Earning It, Sweat

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Familiar Letters - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.104, Read Books Ltd

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• Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign.
  De Cometis

  Albertus Magnus

  Kings, Philosophy, War

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• It doesn't matter where on Earth you live, everyone is utterly dependent on the existence of that lovely, living saltwater soup. There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Water, Lovely

  Sylvia A. Earle (1995). “Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Political, Politics, Debate

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• Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Home, Society, Poor

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.23

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• While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

  Bill Gates

  Technology

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• I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

  John le Carre

  Father, Book, Reading

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• Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Humanity, Poor, Insignificant

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• Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence-a meditative state. It is spiritual.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Peace, Silence

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• The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.

  Benjamin Graham

  Safety, Investing, Miscalculations

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• In the financial markets, however, the connection between a marketable security and the underlying business is not as clear-cut. For investors in a marketable security the gain or loss associated with the various outcomes is not totally inherent in the underlying business; it also depends on the price paid, which is established by the marketplace. The view that risk is dependent on both the nature of investments and on their market price is very different from that described by beta.

  Seth Klarman

  Cutting, Loss, Views

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• Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent upon your prosperity consciousness.

  Louise Hay

  Flow, Consciousness, Prosperity

  Louise Hay (1990). “Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook”, p.137, Hay House, Inc

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• Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, the sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Country, Men, Views

  "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 9, (August 25, 1837), 1837.

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• At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Children, Adults, Youth

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