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If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Andy Rooney

Happiness, Being Happy, Flower

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Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

Jann Wenner

Photography, Long, Design

"Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush To Ipad Is 'Sheer Insanity And Insecurity And Fear'". Interview with Nat Ives, adage.com. May 30, 2011.

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Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.

Robert Higgs

Appreciation, Littles, Fossils

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Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

Irving Kahn

Remember, Figures, Currents

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You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? He's at his home in Nantucket this week, doing his favorite thing, windsurfing. Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows.

Jay Leno

Home, Blow, Wind

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When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

A. C. Dixon

Prayer, Organization, Can Do

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A guy my size needs a tremendous amount of protein on a daily basis, just to maintain peak size, strength, and performance. Basically, that means six or seven small meals a day, so I depend on protein supplementation.

Kevin Nash

Mean, Guy, Six

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

Kit Reed

Religious, Military, Order

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Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

Virginia Postrel

Errors, Progress, Trial And Error

Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Ben Katchor

Watches, Strange, Clock

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... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

Charles Dickens

Inspirational, Eye, Shining

Charles Dickens (1843). “The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.71

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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

Elisabeth Elliot

Inspiring, Imagine, Arise

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Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Peter J. Daniels

Poetry, Literature, Opaque

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In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.

F. R. Leavis

Appreciation, Art, Hands

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What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

Janet Burroway

What Matters, Practice, Imaginative

"Janet Burroway talks about writing lives". The Chicago Manual of Style Interview, cmosshoptalk.com. April 4, 2014.

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It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Population, Looks, Wealth

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When I go out or to an event, I'll wear blue jeans and a shirt. And sometimes when I go to an event I'll wear camouflage. It depends what kind of mood I'm in.

Si Robertson

Blue, Jeans, Events

"Hey, Look! It's Uncle Si: The Duck Dynasty GQ+A". Interview with Lang Whitaker, www.gq.com. September 4, 2013.

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A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

Dan Buettner

Long, Healthy, Life Is

"The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest". Book by Dan Buettner, www.amazon.com. January 1, 2008.

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Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Richard Baxter

Teaching, Life Is Short, Soul

Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.122

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Every time you lose, you think that life's unfair. You think of the bad breaks. But when you're winning and playing well, you still get those bad breaks, only you overcome them. It just depends on how strong your mind is.

Greg Norman

Strong, Winning, Thinking

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The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

J. I. Packer

Doe, Saving, Flow

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Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Becoming, Awareness

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Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.

Ayn Rand

Self, Practice, Wish

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When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing.

Rebecca Goldstein

Ideas, People, Progress

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A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.

Nicholas Sparks

Book, Reading, Character

"Exclusive: Our chat with Nicholas Sparks & exclusive movie poster debut". Interview with Tyler Kurbat, www.sheknows.com. October 24, 2012.

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