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• A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Community, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

  Bodhidharma

  Reality

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.57, Macmillan

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• The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

  Story Musgrave

  Past, Way, Remember

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• ..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Satisfaction In Life, Years

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• If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Over You, Juggernaut, Wheels

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden (2005). “The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists”, p.11, University of Michigan Press

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• Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Character, Feelings, Patriotism

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Society, Ingredients, Company

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• Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Talking, Wells

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• What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Knowing, Ideas

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• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Appreciation, Book, Sunset

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

  Honore de Balzac

  Energy, Illusion, Periods

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• Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

  Honore de Balzac

  Christian, Men, Events

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• Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

  Charles Lamb

  Queens, Book, Reading

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• For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

  Plato

  Character, Men, Evil

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Philosophy, Decision, Economic

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.81, Taylor Trade Publications

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• ... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

  Virginia Woolf

  Nice, Two, Age

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Talent, Capacity

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• Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.

  Jennifer James

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sheep, Thieves, World

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.237

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• Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Character, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1997). “The Sayings of Doctor Johnson”, p.13, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

  Bill Vaughan

  Art, Book, Adversity

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• Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities. The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one's self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one's own characteristic qualities.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Self, Oneness

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.143, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

  Alexander Pope

  Grace, Argument, Instruction

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.192

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• Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wise, Kings, Real

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Essays and The Bee”

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• Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fall, Character, Writing

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