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“I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.”

Source: Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth

“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.”

Character Greatness Individuality Dependent Mediocrity Individualism

Author:James F. Cooper

“There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.”

“Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.”

Men Made Depends Complexes Dependent

Author:Andre Gide

“I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.”

Way Children Hard Given Productions Hard Times Dependent Cracks Candy

Book:Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

Source: Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

“I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.”

Way Believe War Differences Civilization Findings International Dependent

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.”

Ifs Men World Two Today Sex Situation Slave Equality Dependent Handicapped

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.”

People Men Believe Children God Choices Differences Decision Creation Endless Dependent Believe In God Idols Insignificant Liberated

Author:Arthur Miller

“The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.”

Individual Grows Information Amount Command Dependent Theoretical

Book:Memory

Source: Memory

“... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.”

Technology Clear Environment Survival Dependent Our Environment

Author:Samuel Florman

“Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Blessed is the person who has some congenial work, some occupation in which to place one's heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces that are in him or her.”

Heart Persons Facts Left Force Realizing Work Blessed Busy Dependent Occupation Outlets

Author:John Burroughs

“She's vibrator dependent.”

Friendship Dependent

Author:Mojo Nixon

“There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?”

“Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.”

Choices Animal Creatures Degrees Behavior Capable Intelligent Kingdoms Rational Dependent Our Future Animal Kingdom

Author:Willard Gaylin

“The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.”

Mind Together Law Science Simple Wonderful Mystery Scientist Connected Dependent

Author:Olympia Brown

“People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.”

People Firsts Littles Possession Dependent Insects Lectures Prized Possessions

Author:Ben Elton

“A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail. A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student. A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so. A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.”

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.”

May Has Beens Use Knowing Program Weight Safety Bridges Dependent Software Engineers

Author:David Parnas

“We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.”

Christian Spirit Holy Approach Percent Responsible Pursuit Christian Life Holy Spirit Holiness Dependent Bootstraps

Author:Jerry Bridges

“Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.”

Mean Country Energy Dependent Homeland Foreign Countries

Author:Rod Blagojevich

“Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.”

People Looks Mean Facts Actors Roles Talent Benefits Appearance Ugly Dependent Chairs Julia Credentials

Author:Laura Carmichael

“Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.”

Ifs Energy Materials Weapons Europe Nuclear Dependent Nuclear Weapons Routes Raw Materials Imports Shipping

Author:Barbara Amiel

“I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.”

People Thinking Knows Way Years Matter Facts Father Dad My Family My Dad Dependent

Author:Devon Aoki

“We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.”

Oil Dependent Foreign Oil

Author:Jon Corzine

“Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.”

Two Girl Parent Cases Generations Baby Dad Thirds Dependent Mum Mum And Dad New Girl

Author:Roger Federer

“I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.”

Way Important Able Wanted School Choices Individual My Own Growing Up Growing Independent Dependent Mum Independent Life

Author:Alice Englert

“The world would have you believe that you are of worth only if you have money, a certain physical appearance, stylish clothes, or social position. The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions. ... Part of what it means to be a Latter-day Saint is to know within your soul your eternal worth, who you really are, and why you are here on earth.”

“If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own heart, and, in essence, it elevates me so that I am just a mildly flawed imitation of God rather than someone completely dependent on Him.”

Ifs Thinking Heart My Own Sin Essence Depth Dependent Righteousness Imitation Irrelevant Flawed Self Righteous Self Righteousness

Author:Edward T Welch

“Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.”

Should Country Energy Resources Variety Dependent European Countries Finland

Author:Tarja Halonen

“As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.”

Ifs Long Middle Victim East Fuel Dependent Middle East Fossils Fossil Fuel Captives Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:John M. McHugh

“The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.”

Knows May Art Made Decision One Thing Television Directors Art Is Concepts Program Superiors Dependent Autonomous

Author:Alexander Kluge

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