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• Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with troublesome side effects, there is hope for improving or reversing your condition.

  Leon Chaitow

  Medicine, Drug, Sides

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• Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

  George Eliot

  Cutting, Two, Ties

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6046, Delphi Classics

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• No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.

  Arthur Koestler

  Unique, Men, Islands

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• Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Order, Evil

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Children, Husband

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• What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

  William J. Clinton

  Powerful, Community, Example

  "Full text of Bill Clinton's speech (part one)", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Men, Boredom

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• This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Real, Past, Identity

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.578, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Overcoming, Dignity, Individual

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• Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Law, Conformity

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• Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

  Cato the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Succession, Suggesting

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• Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

  Anita Brookner

  Strong, Belief, Satire

  1989 In The Spectator, 23 Mar.

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• Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Would Be, Moral Beliefs, Facts

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Pride, Opportunity, Civilization

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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• There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

  Mary Martin

  Communication, Artist, Light

  Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin (1987). “Kenneth and Mary Martin: 11 September-31 October 1987, Annely Juda Fine Art”

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• Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

  George Gilder

  Broken, Income, Matter

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• Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

  Charles Evers

  Care, Welfare, Take Care

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• The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Men, Ideas, Majority

  Leonard Peikoff (1983). “Ominous Parallels”, p.179, Penguin

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• Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Light, Quality, Technique

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• We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

  Richard Davidson

  Happiness, Different, Needs

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• A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone.

  Leslie Ludy

  Home, Leader, Crowds

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• When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Government, Leader, Bankers

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• A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Doe, Fear Of Death

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• What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Imagination, World, Today

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