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Quote:Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.[Martin Luther King Jr.]

Quote:More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.[Oscar Wilde]

Quote:On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.[William Jennings Bryan]

Quote:Happiness depends upon ourselves.[Aristotle]

Quote:Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.[Theodore Roosevelt]

Quote:Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.[Saint Augustine]

Quote:Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.[Margaret Thatcher]

Quote:Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.[Confucius]

Quote:Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.[Karl Marx]

Quote:God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; head you win, tail, you lose.[Author Unknown]

Quote:Success is dependent upon the glands; sweat glands.[Zig Ziglar]

Quote:It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.[Daniel Webster]

Quote:It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.[John Adams]

Quote:A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.[George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde]

Quote:The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' [Andre Gide]

Quote:It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. [Bette Davis]

Quote:It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence. [Marquis de Vauvenargues]

Quote:Happiness depends upon ourselves. [Aristotle]

Quote:All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. [Cyril Connolly]

Quote:It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. [D. H. Lawrence]

Quote:I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. [William James]

Quote:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell]



Definitions of: depend

Definition: To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

Definition: To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court.

Definition: To rely for support; to be conditioned or contingent; to be connected with anything, as a cause of existence, or as a necessary condition; -- followed by on or upon, formerly by of.

Definition: To trust; to rest with confidence; to rely; to confide; to be certain; -- with on or upon; as, we depend on the word or assurance of our friends; we depend on the mail at the usual hour.

Definition: To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer.

Definition: To impend.

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