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• Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

  Iris Murdoch

  Fabric, Subtle, Symbols

  Iris Murdoch (2013). “The Sovereignty of Good”, p.33, Routledge

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• You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Happiness, Thinking, Things In Life

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.172, Penguin

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• How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

  Lauren Bacall

  Long, Imagination, Actors

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• Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

  Pierre Corneille

  Age, Doe, Spirit

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• Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

  Lord Acton

  Political Differences, Principles, Moral

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• If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Death, Future

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

  Marie Corelli

  Education, Successful, Chance

  Marie Corelli (1971). “A Romance of Two Worlds”, p.294, Health Research Books

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• The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.

  Ted Danson

  Country, Believe, Ocean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

  Robert Plant

  Passion, Mean, Years

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.

  Elinor Glyn

  Duration, Emotion, Loved Ones

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.2496, eBookIt.com

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• Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Happiness, Real, Doe

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• ... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

  Margaret Deland

  Safety, Aprons, Strings

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.164, The Floating Press

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• He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Long, Experience

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• the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

  Ellis Peters

  Travel, Holiday, Spots

  Ellis Peters (2015). “Flight of a Witch”, p.207, Open Road Media

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• One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sweet, Women, Believe

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• Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.

  Augustus William Hare

  Country, Civilization, Causes

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• The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Friendship, Party, Opportunity

  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). “Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”, p.100

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• the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Numbers, Astrology, People

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• Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.

  Stella Benson

  Mother, Husband, Son

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  People, Merit, Reputation

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• Dew depends not on Parliament.

  James Otis

  Dew, Parliament

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• In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Running, Lonely, Adversity

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• The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.

  Mimi Pond

  Party, Color, White

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• Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Encouragement, People, Needs

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• Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

  Carol Gilligan

  Voice, Democracy, Speak

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