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The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

Ann Bridge

Passion, Emotion, Intensity

Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.174, A&C Black

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It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.

Margaret Campbell Barnes

Moments, Driven, Said

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Actually, power is like money; neither good nor bad. Its negative or positive spin depends upon how we use it.

Pat Heim

Negative, Use

Pat Heim, Tammy Hughes, Susan K. Golant (2015). “Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business: Third Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on its being untied from the machine that can make an infinite number of copies of dollars and reduce their value to zero.

Ron Paul

Zero, Numbers, Government

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Early in life, I decided that I would not be overcome by events. My philosophy has been that regardless of the circumstances, I shall not be vanquished, but will try to be happy. Life is not easy for any of us. But it is a continual challenge, and it is up to us to be cheerful - and to be strong, so that those who depend on us may draw strength from our example.

Rose Kennedy

Strong, Philosophy, Happy Life

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I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

Rani Mukerji

Thinking, Office, People

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Every relationship has one or the other motive behind it. Friendship or enemity are not purposeless.Oneness of motive is turned into friendship. While diversity of motive cause enemity. Royal relationships also depend uypon one or theother purpose. But such relatins ar mainly for the welfare of the state.

Chanakya

Oneness, Diversity, Political

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I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind people that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors helping neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him. I really worry about that.

George W. Bush

Running, Children, Humor

"Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.

Aristotle

Education, Wise, Drinking

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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

Aristotle

Happiness, Happy Life, Self

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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

Aristotle

Children, Couple, Law

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.257, Aristotle

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Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

Aristotle

Acting, Vices, Doe

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

Aristotle

Honesty, Men, Excellence

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Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

Narendra Modi

Responsibility, People, India

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I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

John Marshall

Mother, Heart, Character

John Marshall (2000). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, January 1824-March 1827”

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Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.

Bob Dylan

Song, Lying, Play

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

Arundhati Roy

Beautiful, Way, Bloody

Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.104, Haymarket Books

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You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.

Audre Lorde

Dream, Hurt, Children

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Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (...) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest

Sarah Thornton

Art, Real, Thinking

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Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.

Dalai Lama

Humanity, Today, Planets

Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens ... I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works.

Joseph Campbell

Book, Reading, Writing

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When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you “best of all.” It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [...]

Claire Messud

Mother, Love You, Thinking

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Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.

Eleanor Catton

Moving, Different, Would Be

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On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.

John Calvin

Men, Giving, Understanding

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.231, Jazzybee Verlag

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I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

Erykah Badu

Sex, Needs, Companionship

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