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The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
Jasmine (2007) 12 -
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
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All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity...
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
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In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
Pensees (1669) -
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 15 -
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.
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Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
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