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• The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

  Martin Seligman

  Exercise, People, Joy

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I may be 5 ft. 3 in., but my team makes me feel like I'm 10 feet tall, and it's a beautiful relationship. My teammates rely on me to lead and unite them with my words, and I love that my words make the boat go fast.

  Mary Whipple

  Beautiful, Team, Feet

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• A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Ideas, Interesting

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

  Kurt Fuller

  Kids, Sarcasm, Having Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

  Parker Posey

  Careers, Luck, Actors

  "Between Luck and Resilience: Parker Posey on ‘Irrational Man’ and Working with Woody Allen". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2015.

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• As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, Rely Upon, Giving

  "Ted Cruz on opposition to trade bill, ObamaCare alternative". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.

  John Wycliffe

  Jesus, Men, Suffering

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• The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely
  on weapons or brute force to succeed

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Medicine, Sick

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• In warfare, first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Victory, Battle

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.20, Xist Publishing

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• You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Humor, America

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• I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  People, Drunk, Promise

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.'

  Kerri Walsh

  Growing Up, Support Systems, Weakness

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• This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.

  Paul Bloom

  Smart, Empathy, Enthusiasm

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• I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited government. And these are principles and policies that apparently neither the national Republican nor the national Democrat Party believes in. I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.

  Bob Barr

  Party, Believe, Government

  "Bob Barr Leaps in as a Libertarian". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com.

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• Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Keys, Mind, Experts

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• My friends are my inspiration, and all of them are true friends that support me. On a daily basis, I know that I have my friends to rely on.

  Reem Acra

  True Friend, Inspiration, Support

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• In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.

  Alafair Burke

  Law, Rely Upon, Facts

  "What You May Not Know About the Zimmerman Verdict: The Evolution of a Jury Instruction" by Alafair Burke, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.

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• My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

  William Julius Wilson

  Cities, Research, Want

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• I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.

  Craig Newmark

  Reading, Political, Wire

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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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• Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

  Allen Frances

  Tests, Diagnosis, Judgment

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• Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

  Emily Oster

  Thinking About You, Decision, Firm

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• In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesnt mean imposing a bunch of rules.

  Don Yaeger

  Strong, Team, Mean

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• Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?

  Anne Fortier

  Order, Needs, Machines

  Anne Fortier (2014). “The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel”, p.532, Ballantine Books

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• Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.

  Don Paterson

  Art, Rely Upon, Poetry

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