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Civilization depends on morality.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 91 -
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
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Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small opportunities.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60 -
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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