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• Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Fall

  "The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci".

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• All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which after all is mainly dependent on feeling. If you attempt to see in the way prescribed by any mechanical system of drawing, old or new, you will lose the understanding of the fundamental impulse. Your drawing becomes a meaningless diagram and the time so spent is wasted.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Drawing, Understanding, Feelings

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

  Diet Eman

  Real, Communication, Holocaust

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• One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

  David Selby

  Running, Dark, Thinking

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• If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Men, Order

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him only insofar as he obeys their Father--and who decides that? She must keep check on him as much as he does on her. It is, if you will, a system of checks and balances in which each party is as distinct and independent in its sphere as are the departments of government under the Constitution--and just as dependent on each other.

  Hugh Nibley

  Father, Party, Independent

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• The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . .

  Nikola Tesla

  Struggle, Exercise, Men

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Part of company culture is path-dependent.  It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

  Jeff Bezos

  Culture, Lessons, Way

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• To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

  Barry Goldwater

  Discovery, Mind, Essentials

  "With No Apologies". Book by Barry Goldwater, 1979.

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• Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent on your prosperity consciousness. As you can conceive of more, more will come into your life. There is an ocean of abundance available! There is plenty for everyone. You cannot rob another and they cannot rob you, and in no way can you drain the ocean dry... there is always more.

  Louise Hay

  Ocean, Dry, Way

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• The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Long, Becoming, World

  Pope John XXIII (1967). “An invitation to hope”

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• Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.

  Ed Buckner

  Animal, Men, Hands

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• Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.

  William Barrett

  Dirty, Oil, California

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• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Years, America, People

  "Seven questions for Walter Russell Mead". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. January 16, 2010.

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• We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Choices, Evolution, Free Will

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation - that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose.

  Albert J. Nock

  Class, Ideas, Criminals

  "The Criminality of the State". "The American Mercury" Magazine, March 1939.

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• If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

  Alfred de Musset

  Flower, Eye, Heart

  "Narration; The confession of a child of the century".

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• If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Russia, Europe, Sea

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• In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Paper, May

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• Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Men, Desire

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.392, Courier Corporation

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• The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Duration, Our Lives

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• Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

  Allan Bloom

  Children, Character, Weakness

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

  Bill Gates

  House, Energy, Today

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on How to Stop Global Warming". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. December 9, 2010.

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• I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Women, Thinking, Doe

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XII, 1840.

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• Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

  John Ruskin

  Half, Language, Ifs

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.9

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