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Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

Hsing Yun

Reality, Views, Knives

Hsing Yun (2016). “Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Interesting, Way, Talent

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Judith Baughman (1994). “A Life in Letters”, p.455, Simon and Schuster

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The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Aldous Huxley

Artist, Greatness, World

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Vote like your nation's survival depends on it... because it does.

Randi Rhodes

Survival, Doe, Vote

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Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

Tom Robbins

Adventure, Choices, Cocoons

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There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Exercise, Men, Past

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We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them

Jacob Sullum

Government, Needs, Stuff

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The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.

Vannevar Bush

Art, Law, Design

VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”

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The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

Bill Kovach

Editors, Arguing, Desks

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The survival of love depends on the management of change.

Ari Kiev

Survival, Management

Ari Kiev (1984). “How to Keep Love Alive”, HarperCollins Publishers

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What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .

William O. Douglas

Liberty, Doe, Guarantees

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Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

Michael Polanyi

Coherence, Judgment, Criteria

Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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Our generation, and that of our children, will face its share of crises, just like every generation in the past. When those calls come, will you be ready? The answer depends on how we educate the next generation.

Oliver DeMille

Children, Past, Our Generation

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When we discover this and give our lives to it, we are leaders. This is the Path of Leadership. Whatever our age or phase of life, we must enter and stay on the Path of Leadership. The future of the world depends upon it-upon you.

Oliver DeMille

Giving, Leader, Age

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Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.

Oliver DeMille

Pursuit Of Happiness, Numbers, Decay

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If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.

Alan Bullock

Country, Political, Democracy

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...realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making... All wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind- thought - is the only creator. The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstance.

Robert Collier

Thinking, Understanding, Mind

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What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest

Jonathon Porritt

Progress, Skins, Minorities

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...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church.

Pope John Paul II

Spiritual, Prayer, Men

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When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

Norman Jewison

Independent, Fields, Artistic

"New Oscar Rule May Hurt Indie Films, Audiences", www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2003.

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Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.

Peter Drucker

Jobs, Organization, People

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Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially independent, then you really don't depend on your neighbors for anything. You can just pay someone to do it.

Charles Eisenstein

Independent, People, Community

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The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.

Daniel Dennett

Order, Brain, Mind

Daniel C. Dennett (1996). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

James D. Watson

Mind, Gathering, Horizon

James D. Watson (2007). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.324, OUP Oxford

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...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sound arguments. We believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power behind it. This is our philosophy.

Bhagat Singh

Philosophy, Believe, Men

Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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