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• We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Love, Peace, Nature

  Speech to Economic and Social Council of United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 July 1965

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• We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

  David Suzuki

  Addiction, Bags, Use

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• Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love Is, Body, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.92, New World Library

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• Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

  Jeannette Walls

  Horse, Mirrors, Who You Are

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• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  Rachel Weisz

  Loss, Political, Stories

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• Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

  E. O. Wilson

  Land, Rest Of Life, Ants

  "An Interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life". Interview with David Pogue, www.nytimes.com. October 23, 2008.

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• We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.

  Robert Winston

  School, Engineering, People

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• Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Confidence, Insecure, Self

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.67, Vintage

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• The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.

  David Platt

  Love You, Biblical, Enemy

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• But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Baby, Taken, Hands

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.

  David O. McKay

  Kings, Heart, Character

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• I swear you’re a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don’t want to distract you while you’re attempting to drive and I’m dependent on you for my life. (Sway)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Want, Attempting, Swear

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.34, Macmillan

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• You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

  A. S. Byatt

  Dark, Wife, Mind

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• When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

  Rollo May

  Reality, Existentialism, Humans

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.27, Jason Aronson

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• Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

  Anita Shreve

  Imagination

  Anita Shreve (2007). “A Wedding in December: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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• Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

  Brian Weiss

  Happiness, Hurt, Positive Thinking

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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Doubt, Balance

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.95, Princeton University Press

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• Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Character, Thinking, Brain

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• Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~

  Dr. Seuss

  Writing, Mean, Simple

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• But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

  Albert Einstein

  Reflection, Destiny, Ties

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Squares

  Speech at New York State Fair, Syracuse, N.Y., 7 Sept. 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 11

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• The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

  Martin Heidegger

  Independent, Thinking, Thinker

  Martin Heidegger (1979). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”

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• The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Life, Pain, Believe

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.366, Random House

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• The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

  Alice Miller

  Self, Achievement, Quality

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.36, Basic Books

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• Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Joy

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.33, Zondervan

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