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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ↗

— Upton Sinclair

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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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Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet. ↗

— Huston Smith

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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on. ↗

— Julian Eltinge

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But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. ↗

— James Keller

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The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it. ↗

— Placido Domingo

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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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