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• Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

  Carolyn Hart

  Looks, Weapons, Persons

  Carolyn Hart (2009). “Dead Man's Island”, p.57, Crimeline

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• [On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.

  Mildred Cable

  Heart, Weak Points, Camels

  Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

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• We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.

  Vivian Gornick

  Expectations, Toes, Surprise

  Vivian Gornick (1987). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, Touchstone

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• What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, People, Boredom

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• The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.

  Scott Hahn

  Law, Gravity, Feels

  Scott Hahn (2007). “Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith”, p.9, Image

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• There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.

  Big Sean

  Unique, Tacky, Lines

  Source: www.gq.com

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• As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

  John Lennon

  Children, Wall, Thinking

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• You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

  Robert Greene

  Law, Mind, Doe

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.

  Margaret Atwood

  Democracy, Fabric, Citizens

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mistake, Matter, Moments

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• People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time.

  Sarah Silverman

  Cutting, People, Topics

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• Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By its domination of the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.

  Marie Winn

  Song, Games, Special

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• Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Compassion, Ingredients

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books

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• Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

  Linda Gordon

  Happy Endings, Ends, Tales

  Linda Gordon (2011). “The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction”, p.314, Harvard University Press

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• happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

  Flora Thompson

  Happiness, Mind, Events

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.52, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

  Elsa Barker

  Firsts, Bears, Mystery

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• If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be eroded by someone else. If a woman has a sense of identity that does not depend on finding that identity in someone else, she cannot lose her identity in someone else. And so we return to the central fact: it is necessary to be.

  Jo Coudert

  Men, Identity, Doe

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.177, iUniverse

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• All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

  Bodhidharma

  Joy, Suffering, Conditions

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Rocks, Feet, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 541, 1895.

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• There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of the Family, and they are the Statesmen. They have realized how intimately the welfare of the State depends upon the influence and nature of the Families from which it is constituted; and they have endeavoured that the State in turn should mould and influence the Family to its own purposes.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Taken, Men, Class

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• The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  People, Vision, Progress

  Lewis M. Branscomb (1997). “Confessions of a Technophile”, p.3, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Wagers, Resources, Probability

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Three, Fundamental Principles Of A Theory Of Gambling, 1977.

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• The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same unity. Deep down, they are also related (or connected) among them; that they consider (or not) themselves as strangers, this just depends on the feeling (or sensation) that dictate their relationships. In their country, two fellow coutrymen whose paths berely cross (or see each only only briefly) with inferrence, would effusively rush themselves up (or throw themselves) into each other arms if they would happen to meet in a desert, among Cannibles.

  African Spir

  Country, Mean, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 42), 1937.

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• It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.

  African Spir

  Blessing, Torment

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 37), 1937.

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• Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

  Jennifer Stone

  Reality, Light, Perception

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