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“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”

Source: Killosophy

“In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.”

Believe May Earth Mankind Particular Depends Survival Lasting Preservation Inheritance Researchers Future Of Mankind

Author:Kenichi Fukui

“Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”

May War Depends Busy Leisure Nicomachean Ethics

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.”

May Running Reading Sides Path Depends Concern Shame Shining Misery

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.”

People Wells Looks May Depends Democrat Committees Nominations Judiciary

Author:Barbara Boxer

“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.”

Should Humans May Important Reason Individual Force Difficult Growth Principles Depends Civilization Prove Essentials Tasks Limitation Bows Preservation Human Reason

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.”

World May Effort Danger Depends

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.”

May War Sometimes Nations Fate Position Depends Fortresses

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.”

People May Matter Motivational Today Sound Missing Depends Tomorrow Late Yesterday Too Late Live By Only Time

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another woman's reproductive vulnerability.”

Believe May Choices I Believe Depends Degrees Possession Vulnerability Crucial One Woman Another Woman

Book:Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States

Source: Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States

“In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases, will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of People comprehended under the same Government.”

People May Country Government Interest Religious Numbers Cases Rights Security Depends Degrees Civil Rights Sects Multiplicity Free Government Religious Rights

Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.”

Knows May Doe Truth Difficult Opinion Depends Truth Is Discovery Argument Excuse Discussion Persecution Suppression

Book:Religion and Science

Source: Religion and Science

“Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.”

May Whole Depends Lawyer Estates Rogues

Author:George Crabbe