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• My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

  Margaret Cho

  Peace, Attitude, War

  Margaret Cho (2006). “I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.

  Robertson Davies

  Commitment, Quality, Groups

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• Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Eye, Self

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• The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

  Thomas Malthus

  Population, Excess, Causes

  THOMAS MALTHUS, JULIAN HUXLEY, FREDERICK OSBORN (1960). “ON POPULATION THREE ESSAYS”

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• It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

  Myrtle Reed

  Views, Perspective, Looks

  Myrtle Reed (1902). “Lavender and Old Lace”

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• A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Equality, Men

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• [On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.

  Starhawk

  Fall, Mean, Safety

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• Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.

  Nancy Pickard

  Religious, Believe, Angel

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• We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happiness, Happy, Time

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.33, Tharpa Publications US

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• Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

  John Henry Holland

  Art, Matter, Taste

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• Since everything is interrelated, since all things depend one upon another, nothing is absolute, nothing is separate, but all are part of the one indivisible whole.

  Thich Thien-An

  All Things, Indivisible, Whole

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• Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

  Carolyn Hart

  Looks, Weapons, Persons

  Carolyn Hart (2009). “Dead Man's Island”, p.57, Crimeline

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• We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.

  Vivian Gornick

  Expectations, Toes, Surprise

  Vivian Gornick (1987). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, Touchstone

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• What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, People, Boredom

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• The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.

  Margaret Atwood

  Democracy, Fabric, Citizens

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mistake, Matter, Moments

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• Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By its domination of the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.

  Marie Winn

  Song, Games, Special

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• Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Compassion, Ingredients

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books

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• The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

  Elsa Barker

  Firsts, Bears, Mystery

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• If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be eroded by someone else. If a woman has a sense of identity that does not depend on finding that identity in someone else, she cannot lose her identity in someone else. And so we return to the central fact: it is necessary to be.

  Jo Coudert

  Men, Identity, Doe

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.177, iUniverse

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• To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Rocks, Feet, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 541, 1895.

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• There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of the Family, and they are the Statesmen. They have realized how intimately the welfare of the State depends upon the influence and nature of the Families from which it is constituted; and they have endeavoured that the State in turn should mould and influence the Family to its own purposes.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Taken, Men, Class

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• It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.

  African Spir

  Blessing, Torment

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 37), 1937.

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• Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

  Jennifer Stone

  Reality, Light, Perception

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• I have exes Im friends with and exes Im not friends with. It depends on what you decide together. I do think that sometimes trying to maintain that bond can be healthier than walking away.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Thinking, Walking Away, Together

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