#depends

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. ↗

— John Wilkes

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Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. ↗

— Willie Aames

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. ↗

— Jane Addams

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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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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. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

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When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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