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The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

– Epicurus

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.

– Simone Weil

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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

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Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

– Matrix, The

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Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

– Robert Albert Bloch

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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

– Louise Erdrich

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Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

– John D. MacDonald

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All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.

– Ruth Ross

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Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands.

– Zig Ziglar

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To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

– Berton Averre

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The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

– James Dale Davidson

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