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• I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Technology, Discovery, Space

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.92, Basic Books

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• America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cutting, Technology, Awards

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• He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).

  Dallas Willard

  Exercise, Government, Church

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• Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Father, Personality

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• All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blessing, Love Is, Passing Away

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God's love does not depend on the current spiritual condition of those He loves.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Doe, Currents

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• My growth depends on my walls coming down.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Wall, Growth

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• Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Believe, Contradiction

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• The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.

  Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

  Progress, Add, Minorities

  Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora (1987). “Egalitarian Envy: The Political Foundations of Social Justice”, New York : Paragon House

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• The first (lesson) which we meet again and again in history, is that once the dole or similar relief programs are introduced, they seem almost inevitably - unless surrounded by the most rigid restrictions - to get out of hand. The second lesson is that once this happens the poor become more numerous and worse off than they were before, not only because they have lost self-reliance, but because the sources of wealth and production on which they depend for either doles or jobs are diminished or destroyed.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Jobs, Self, Hands

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• The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities.

  Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

  Personality, Quality, Capacity

  Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora (1987). “Egalitarian Envy: The Political Foundations of Social Justice”, New York : Paragon House

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• If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

  Kenny Werner

  Practice, Levels, Cases

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• It depends on your specific conception of God, because belief can equally well leave you with this constant sense that you're coming up short and you're being judged and you're not doing quite the perfect thing. You know, I was brought up very religiously, and I never totally lost that sense, you know, that I'm screwing up.

  Joel Achenbach

  Perfect, Belief, Lost

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• Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, "Be good." Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, "Help!"

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, People, Heaven

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.55, Harper Collins

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• Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

  John C. Bogle

  Character, Despair, Depth

  John C. Bogle (2015). “Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor”, p.242, John Wiley & Sons

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• Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

  John Dewey

  Quality

  John Dewey, Francis William Garforth (1966). “Selected educational writings”

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• I think I do have my own technique. I don't like to depend on teachers. So I'm walking on my own way, and I try to be as natural as I can. I think it's the only way to be yourself.

  Klaus Nomi

  Being Yourself, Teacher, Thinking

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• People in the world wish to make things rigid, things which are of the finest nature which words cannot explain. When a person describes the hereafter, it is just like wanting to weigh the soul or photograph the spirit. I personally think that you must be able to realize yourself what the hereafter is. You must not depend upon my words.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Reality, World, Examination

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• Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Reality, Race, Giving

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• Sometimes, when asked the what-do-you-do question, it occurs to me to say that I work for the government. I have a government job, essential to national security. I AM A CITIZEN. Like the Supreme Court judges, my job is for life, and the well-being of my country depends on me. It seems fair to think that I should be held accountable for my record in the same way I expect accountability from those who seek elected office. I would like to be able to say that I can stand on my record and am proud of it.

  Robert Fulghum

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

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• I enjoy being a woman. It's what I learned from years of experience in modeling. You learn how to seduce; how to be sensual, how to play. It's very important for a woman, I think. But it's not by beauty that you seduce. It's a meeting - it depends on the image the other reflects back to you, how they see you and make you feel.

  Laetitia Casta

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

  Swami Vivekananda

  World, Pleasure

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3508, Manonmani Publishers

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• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Color, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

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• People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

  Thomas Szasz

  Dream, Powerful, People

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