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• The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually it just feels like it works.

  Rihanna

  Psych, Dresses, Way

  Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2015.

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• I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.

  Bill Gates

  People, Talent, Someday

  "A Philanthropist, Technology Pioneer, and Multi-Billionaire". Interview with Olivia Pineda, mag.amazing-kids.org. 2010.

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• It just depends on what you decide to have in your heart. That's what I've learned. That's where I am at this stage in my life is if we can fill ourselves with love and appreciation for, and be in a state of gratitude... Every event of your life you have an opportunity to be in a state of gratitude for it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Appreciation, Gratitude, Heart

  "Nick Ortner chats with Wayne Dyer about EFT Tapping". Interview with Nick Ortner, www.thetappingsolution.com. December 30, 2014.

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• Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.

  John Maus

  Decision, Earning, Force

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It's worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.

  Barry Humphries

  Thinking, People, Comedian

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• I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on what the beat tells me to do; that's why you're always gonna get passionate hooks, because I'm feeling the beats and the emotion behind the drums and melodies.

  Kid Cudi

  Feelings, Hook, Passionate

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• A lot of things depend on your attitude. If it is good that you seek, it is good that you will find.

  Rita Zahara

  Attitude, Ifs

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• So remember what others think of you depends a lot on what you believe about yourself, what you think you are, what you think about, what you say and what you have proven you can do.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

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• Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Sight

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1979). “Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's”, Humanities Pr

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• Careful observers may foretell the hour
  (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r.
  While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er
  Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1984). “Jonathan Swift”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press

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• The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Honor, Quality

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• As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Men, Editors

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• The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Tolerance, Degrees, Maintaining

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Saint Joan”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

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• Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Lying, Believe, Miracle

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.259, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Work, Youth, Habit

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Calling, Care

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• Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

  Aristotle

  Character, Mind, Three

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• A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

  Max Frisch

  Real, Identity, Alive

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• The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father,
  Because, in chief, it, only, can defend
  Against itself. At its mercy, we depend
  Upon it.

  Wallace Stevens

  Father, Mind, World

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.409, Vintage

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• Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Enterprise, Success Or Failure

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• The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Doe

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• One of the lies would make it out that nothing
  Ever presents itself before us twice.
  Where would we be at last if that were so?
  Our very life depends on everything's
  Recurring till we answer from within.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Lying, Answers

  Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.

  Raymond Chandler

  Sex, Hate, Mean

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Numbers, Understanding

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• so much depends
  upon
  
  a red wheel
  barrow

  William Carlos Williams

  Red, Wheels

  "The Red Wheelbarrow" l. 1 (1923)

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