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• Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Precaution, Whim, Multitudes

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

  A. J. Liebling

  Country, New York, Thinking

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• With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.

  Charles Darwin

  Progress, Degrees, Savages

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.199, Diversion Books

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• For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fashion, Heirs, Belief

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.

  Maimonides

  Self, Divine Wisdom, Mind

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.447, Aeterna Press

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• We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse must depend upon our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness.... Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government.

  George Mason

  Blessing, Government, Justice

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• The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Race, Important

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “On Light and Other High Frequency”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.

  Donovan McNabb

  Football, Fun, Adversity

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• A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Thinking, Long, Age

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• What is the best way to look for one´s chief feature?" someone asked. Simply see yourself. I do not know how to explain it better. It is possible one may find something -- chief feature of the moment. It is imaginary personality; this is the chief feature for everybody."Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Knowing, Personality, Quality

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• A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

  Christopher Walken

  Art, Men, Fire

  "Fictional character: Rayburn". "Man on Fire", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking. Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Drinking, Heart, Exercise

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• When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.

  Brandon T. Jackson

  Blessed, People, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sucess in life depends primarily upon three things: discovery of who you are, what you can do best, and where you are going.

  Henry Clausen

  Discovery, Three, Sucess

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• The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

  Alain de Botton

  Looks, Way, Realising

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• I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

  Fernando Torres

  Mother, Mind, States

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• Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Political, Mankind, Arrangements

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• Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

  Charles Kellogg

  Erosion, Soil, Soil Erosion

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• The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

  Rajneesh

  Intelligent, Love And Respect, Insight

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Sincerity, Livelihood, Suspicious

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• Where you stand depends where you sit.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Where You Stand

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• The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

  Edith Wharton

  Stories, Form, Short Story

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude.

  Sterling W Sill

  Attitude, Lazy, Ambitious

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• I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be.

  Scott Speedman

  Guy, Would Be, Rehearsal

  Source: collider.com

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• OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Character, Hands, Interesting

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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