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• It depends what competition you are in. When you go to the big meets it's all about who touches in first. You've got to get into that race and into that frame of mind so that you're ready to race and you're ready to work hard and finish first.

  Jazmin Carlin

  Hard Work, Race, Competition

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I would love to continue to model. It just depends on what opportunities I get, of course, I want to always stay true to who I am and make sure in everything I do God is getting the glory. If modeling is one of those things that keeps presenting itself to me, I would love to do it and continue to get more involved.

  Willie Robertson

  Love, Opportunity, Who I Am

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• Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Choices

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• On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Hero, Men

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• The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

  Ted Turner

  Success, Fighting, White

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• Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.

  Hudson Taylor

  Eye, Missionary, Done

  Mrs. Howard Taylor, James Hudson Taylor (1893). “The Story of the China Inland Mission”

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• You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

  Les Brown

  Want, Energy, Doe

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• You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

  Jim Thompson

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

  James Robertson

  Success, Ideas, Clarity

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• How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.

  David J. Schwartz

  Believe, Positive Thinking, Mind

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.128, Random House

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• The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

  William Falconer

  Fate, Important, May

  William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

  Lord Byron

  Food, Apples, Cooking

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• If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.

  William Morris

  Wall, Nice, Judgement

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• A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

  Pam Brown

  Giving, Doe, Bears

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• In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

  John Lubbock

  World, This World

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• Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Teaching, Giving

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.88, SPCK

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• The person best suited to look out for your interests is you. The more you depend on yourself, the more positive control you have over every aspect of your life.
  Take personal responsibility for who you are, what you do, and how you live. You are the only person who knows what is best for you. And you are the one who is most able to achieve it!! You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Responsibility, Greatness, Looks

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• The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

  David Drake

  Determination, Numbers, People

  David Drake (2012). “Voyage Across the Stars”, p.624, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

  John Adams

  Blessing, Government, Constitution

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.193

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• Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

  Sam Harris

  Mind, Suffering, Facts

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

  George P. Baker

  Clever, Views, Differences

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• I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Rain, Thinking, Acting

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Getting older is not nice for anyone, not for men, not for women, and even more difficult for people who depend on their physical appearance. But it's not a drama. I know some people who are much more stressed than I am. And also, I live in Europe; I think it would be much more difficult if I lived in America.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Nice, Drama, Men

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, People, Personality

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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