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“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.”
Charlotte Bronte
“The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.”
C. Wright Mills
“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”
Colin Powell
“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.”
William Bernbach
“Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom”
Friedrich August Hayek
“The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending”
Samuel Butler
“In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.”
Douglas MacArthur
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