#depend

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh. ↗

— John Owen

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Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. ↗

— Richard Owen

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By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

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I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention. ↗

— James Laughlin

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Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. ↗

— Henry Lawson

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Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer. ↗

— Denis Leary

#even #good #good ones #hall #hit

I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

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All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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