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• It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

  Franklin Pierce

  God, Religious, Humble

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

  Fanny Fern

  Bread, Tough

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.319, Rutgers University Press

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• A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

  Ernst Mach

  Space, Temperature, Source

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Sex, Mean, Expression

  Robert C. Solomon (1987). “From Hegel to Existentialism”, p.130, Oxford University Press

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• Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

  Linda Ellerbee

  How You Feel, Temperature, Feels

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• Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.

  Lawrence Hunter

  Gun, Effort, Ongoing

  "Gun Control Tramples On The Certain Virtues Of A Heavily Armed Citizenry". www.forbes.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

  Samuel Gompers

  People, Dangerous, Busybodies

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1922). “The American Federationist”

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• The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.

  Johan Huizinga

  Simple, Feelings, Principles

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• The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

  Samuel Johnson

  Powerful, Men, Numbers

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.125

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• Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.

  Bettina Arndt

  Husband, Home, Wife

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• This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Modern Library

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• Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, No Friends, Dependence On Others

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• We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent of dependence and interdependence in American life. As long as we pretend that only poor or abnormal families need outside assistance, we will shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with effective policies for helping families in the middle.

  Stephanie Coontz

  America, Long, Needs

  Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.73, Basic Books

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• The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Marriage, Work, Loneliness

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• Interdependency follows independence.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Empowerment, Independence

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• Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

  Rollo May

  Confused, Love Is, Independence

  Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”

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• The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.

  Solanus Casey

  Giving, Happy Relationship, Purpose

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• Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Gift From God

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• Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

  Susan B. Anthony

  Independent, Giving, Independence

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Gratitude, Morning

  Daniel Webster (1843). “An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843”, p.59

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• By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

  Tim Johnson

  Wind, Oil, America

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• With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Wise, Running, Believe

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• Dependence leads to subservience.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Libertarian, Subservience

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• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loneliness, Passion, Men

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• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

  Seneca the Elder

  Want, True Happiness, Anxious

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