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Letter "D" » dependence
«We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Dependence,
Power
| Keywords:
break out, cycle, dependence, exert, financially, immense, imposed, that much, vicious, vicious cycle
«True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.»
«Weariness.Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptin»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
at rest, dependence, diversion, diversions, forlornness, insufferable, insufficiency, nothingness, weariness
«What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Elections
| Keywords:
dependence, fitness, posse, posses, retain
«True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Duty,
Happiness
| Keywords:
abundantly, amuse, anxious, dependence, duties, sufficient
«To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together . . . humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
contradictories, contradictory, dependence, go together, manly, reliance
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