#upon

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#always #bent #care #country #defence

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#control #dependent #destiny #determines #extent

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#dupe #each #general #general rule #love

I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion. ↗

— Gower Champion

#embellish #emotion #enlarge #existing #extend

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#belief #him #holds #influence #nor

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#another way #based #everybody #more #mysterious

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#everyone #except #man #politician #sat

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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