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• If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.  That's not gallons, but barrels.  Small changes in buying habits can make big differences.  Becoming a less energy-dependent nation may just need to start with a good breakfast.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Small Changes, Oil

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and here is the point of origin of sculpture. For me the formation of the thought is already sculpture. The thought is sculpture.

  Joseph Beuys

  Men, Thinking, Sculpture

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• Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and envious, feeling unworthy or ashamed about their circumstances. Have you ever felt or acted this way?

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Self Worth, Feelings, May

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• The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they're gonna stay in business. And if we don't have enough poverty at home, we'll import it. That's what our open-borders policy is: It's about importing poverty and importing the number of potential registered voters for the Democrat party.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Home, Numbers

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• How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Stories

  "The danger of a single story". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July, 2009.

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• The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

  Woody Allen

  Fall, Winning, Men

  Match Point, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.

  Margaret Sanger

  Religious, Exercise, Thinking

  The Morality of Birth Control, delivered 18 November 1921, Park Theatre, NY

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• Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.

  Allan Bloom

  Artist, People, Democracy

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? ... Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Summer, Children, Stupid

  "Right-Wing Media Aren't Concerned About Helping The Poor, But They Sure Want To Help The Rich" by Mike Burns, www.mediamatters.org. February 7, 2012.

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• Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and self-investment. Instead, people are told that American is unjust, unfair, and full of disadvantages. They are told that their only hope is for government to fix their problems. What has happened is that generations of people have bought into this nonsense and as result have remained hopelessly mired in poverty and despair -- because the promised solutions don't work. And they will never work -- they never have.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Self, People

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• By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and their dignity is destroyed. Is it compassionate to enslave more and more people by making them a part of the government dependency cycle? I think compassion should be measured by how many people no longer need it. Helping people to become self-sufficient is much more compassionate than drugging them with the narcotic of welfare.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hurt, Thinking, Compassion

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• The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Government, May, Spirals

  "You've got to have faith". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

  William A. Niskanen

  Jobs, Loss, Government

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• To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

  Berton Averre

  Personality, Forgiving

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• Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Mother, Earth Day, World

  "Our Senseless Toil". Book by Viktor Schauberger, 1934.

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• A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.

  Roger Babson

  Success, Future, Character

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• All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Character, Intimate Relationships

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• Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.

  Cecile Reynaud

  Dream, Athlete, Discipline

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• So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Oil, Progress

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• If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not be a desire then. If you want to move in it you can move into it as a fun, but not as a desire. Then there is no obsession in it because you are not dependent on it.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Fun, Moving

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• Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Educational, Conversation, Customers

  Rasheed Ogunlaru (2012). “Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business”, p.126, Kogan Page Publishers

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• Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Inspiration, Views

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• Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Arrogance, Feels, Despised

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• I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

  Hesiod

  Wise, Patience, Hope

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• You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Inspiration, Nimble, Open Minded

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