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• Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

  Keith Ellison

  Retirement, Jobs, Able

  "Why Cutting Social Security Benefits Is Such a Big Deal" by Rep. Keith Ellison, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lost

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• Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

  Elliott Abrams

  Matter, Election, Fairs

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• A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.

  Archibald Cox

  Government, Self, Law

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• Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

  Kenya Hara

  Communication, Successful, Opinion

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• So the principles of warfare are: Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him. Do not depend on the enemy not attacking, but depend on our position that cannot be attacked.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Principles, Warfare

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• It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things but yeah I can imagine that you can kind of - I think it depends on one's psychological state. I think there are some people who are on the internet and can fall in love and seem to be in a certain psychological state and other people who are - who couldn't quite do that.

  Keanu Reeves

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Two

  "Keanu Reeves Goes to The Lake House". Movie Web Interview, movieweb.com. June 15, 2006.

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• Generally biobanking is really designed more for urban areas, with the offsets being offered in non-urban areas. It may be able to help in some circumstances, but it depends a lot on what we're talking about here. But biobanking does allow for offsets in relation to a specific species, as well as specific ecological communities as well as land. It's quite a flexible tool.

  Frank Sartor

  Talking, Land, Community

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

  Kobe Bryant

  Passion, Purpose, Stories

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Future, fashion, legacy and Lamar Odom". Interview with Sam Amick, www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.

  Rick Warren

  Thinking, Feelings, Tides

  "Pastor Rick Warren". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2012.

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• My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

  Stephen King

  Book, Thinking, Together

  "Stephen King has called Ira Levin-author of 'Rosemary's". Interview with Cheryl Lavin, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 7, 1991.

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• One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.

  Tim Tebow

  Sports, Football, Brother

  Source: espn.go.com

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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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• While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Jobs, Growing Up, Simple

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• If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.

  Seth Godin

  Organization, Ideas, Knowing

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• How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.

  Tony Ross

  Book, Long, Awful

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• High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

  Major Owens

  Income, Fuel, Gasoline

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• Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Running, Kindness, Might

  "Dr. Doom" by Stephen Mihm, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 2008.

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• I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

  Hugh Masekela

  Two, People, Majority

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• Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.

  Gary Zukav

  Two, Forever, Earth

  "Twin Miracles" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Hate, Independent, Play

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• If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.

  Peter Kreeft

  Practice, Feelings, Good Intentions

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.43, Ignatius Press

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• Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

  Shiv Khera

  Children

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