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• I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

  James Boswell

  Family, Men, Rights

  James Boswell (1963). “Boswell: the ominous years, 1774-1776”

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• When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Teaching, Mean

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• How much on outward show does all depend,
  If virtues from within no lustre lend!
  Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest
  Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.

  Horace Walpole

  Doe, Majesty, Royalty

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• Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Children, Giving, Sugar

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• ... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

  Susan Sontag

  Goal, Consciousness, Pornography

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• ... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Doing Nothing

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “Willing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.

  Owen Feltham

  Together, World, Stones

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• Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.

  David Hume

  Spring, Intelligent, Secret

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.374

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• All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it is virtuous; and when the neglect or nonperformance of it displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it.

  David Hume

  Lying, Mind, Quality

  David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

  Barack Obama

  Long, Together, Speech

  Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 21, 2011.

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• Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.

  Barack Obama

  War, Ignorance, Opportunity

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• The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

  Maimonides

  Soul, Peculiar, Body

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• Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

  Anthony Trollope

  Aristocracy, Politics, England

  Anthony Trollope (1874). “Lady Anna”, p.292

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• The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

  William Henry Harrison

  People, Liberty, Attention

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.

  Edwin Osgood Grover

  Dignity, Labor

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• Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical order and so provides for the unity of imperative control.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Faith, Spiritual, Power

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Views, Giving

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• The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

  Lucy Stone

  Politician, Sentiments, Creatures

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the king the basis of his kingdoms, the sun of his microcosm, the heart of the state; from him all power arises and all grace stems.

  William Harvey

  Kings, Heart, Animal

  William Harvey (1957). “Movement of the heart and blood in animals: an anatomical essay”

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• It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may be interested mainly in world 1 objects--say crystals and X-rays. But very soon he must realize how much depends on our interpretation of the facts, that is, on our theories, and so on world 3 objects. Similarly, a historian of science, or a philosopher interested in science must be largely a student of world 3 objects.

  Karl Popper

  Rays, World, May

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.213, Routledge

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• If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.

  Patrick Henry

  Arms, Given, Lost

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• If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.

  David Elkind

  Children, Perspective, Parent

  David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.26, Da Capo Press

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• Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort.  No one leads well without paying the price of discipline.  As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Exercise, Discipline

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• Without natural resources life itself is impossible. From birth to death, natural resources, transformed for human use, feed, clothe, shelter, and transport us. Upon them we depend for every material necessity, comfort, convenience, and protection in our lives. Without abundant resources prosperity is out of reach.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Use, Shelter, Comfort

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press

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