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• The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Real, Men

  John Ruskin (1859). “Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things”, p.83

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• A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.

  John Ruskin

  Dog, Character, Men

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.55

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• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

  John Ruskin

  Sex, Equality, Giving

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

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• The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.

  John Ruskin

  Eye, Expression, Variation

  John Ruskin (1853). “The stones of Venice”, p.127

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• science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Past, Discovery

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

  Iris Murdoch

  Fabric, Subtle, Symbols

  Iris Murdoch (2013). “The Sovereignty of Good”, p.33, Routledge

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• Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love Is, Gold, Our Love

  Iris Murdoch (1962). “An Unofficial Rose: A Novel”

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• You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Happiness, Thinking, Things In Life

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.172, Penguin

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• How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

  Lauren Bacall

  Long, Imagination, Actors

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• Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Women, Writing, Heart

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• My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

  Thomas Merton

  Night, Hands, Action

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

  Pierre Corneille

  Age, Doe, Spirit

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• Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

  Lord Acton

  Political Differences, Principles, Moral

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• No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Attitude, Doe

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Spiritual Life”, p.1, Quest Books

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• If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Death, Future

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

  Marie Corelli

  Education, Successful, Chance

  Marie Corelli (1971). “A Romance of Two Worlds”, p.294, Health Research Books

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• Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.

  William Greider

  Wisdom, Lag, Too Much

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• A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Food, Men, Cooking

  The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

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• When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

  Alicia Keys

  Song, Tiny, Honestly

  "6 Questions With Alicia Keys". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. October 20, 2005.

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• And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Taught Us, Special, Hollywood

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• The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.

  Ted Danson

  Country, Believe, Ocean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

  Robert Plant

  Passion, Mean, Years

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

  Laurence Sterne

  World, May, Trouble

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.426

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• The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.

  Elinor Glyn

  Duration, Emotion, Loved Ones

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.2496, eBookIt.com

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• Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Happiness, Real, Doe

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