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• The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Reality, Discovery, Belief

  1970 BBC interview, 7 Dec.

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• The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Ideas, Democracy

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• I like to give stuff away for free and play shows for cheap and not rely on music as a job.

  Girl Talk

  Jobs, Play, Giving

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.

  Milford Zornes

  Memories, Thinking, Years

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• Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Spiritual, Blessing, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 149, 1895.

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• I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter.

  Stephen Strasburg

  Horse, Want, Rotation

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• Begin your bodybuilding lifestyle with an open mind, an open heart, a lot of patience and understanding. With the right discipline and right approach, it could be the sport that teaches you the most about yourself. It’s not a team sport. There is nobody else to count on, and you rely heavily on your own will and your ability to gather up the courage to take it on and excel. It’s up to you. Is it in you?

  Robert Cheeke

  Sports, Team, Heart

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.61, Book Publishing Company

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• There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Country, Thinking, Rely Upon

  Jerome K. Jerome (2017). “Clocks: From "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"”, p.3, The Floating Press

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• The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at.

  Simone Weil

  Rely Upon, Rights, Tone

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

  Mary Oliver

  Art, Believe, Imagination

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• We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Years, Quality, Dodge

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 139, 1982.

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• The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.

  John Jay Chapman

  Religious, Long, Political

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and personal communications given to me by other people that I know.... I've got to try to piece together some tentative information picture of what the whole thing is like, but I'm aware that it becomes more and more speculative as it becomes more and more second, third, fourth hand. And this applies to absolutely everyone.

  R. D. Laing

  Communication, Writing, Hands

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• I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Wall, Trying, Movement

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• In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.

  William Wegman

  Men, Self, Years

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• You're wrong! That's not why Kagome was born! Kagome taught me how to smile, how to believe in people! Kagome was the reason I could make friends and rely on those friends! To shed tears for others, to understand true strength and kindness…They’re all things I learned from Kagome! Kagome was born to meet me! And I was born for her!

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Kindness, Believe, People

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• If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.

  Amor Towles

  Talking, People, Giving

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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• Women, you have all this power, I'm telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you'll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment.

  Gene Simmons

  Beautiful, Successful, Men

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• Those who depend fully on another person’s knowledge to decide what is possible are easily manipulated. The most effective leaders utilize experts from all fields, but rely on none when it comes to making a decision.

  Joelle Charbonneau

  Decision, Leader, Fields

  Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing Trilogy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

  Alison Jackson

  Perception

  "An unusual glimpse at celebrity". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2005.

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• Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Powerful, Men, Expression

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1913). “Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)”

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• Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Rely Upon, Enemy

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Justice, Fairness, Shows

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

  Robert Browning

  Done, Innocence, Virtue

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