“ DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility. ”
- William Cobbett- Copy
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“ True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after. ”
- Edwin H. Land- Copy
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“ We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman — not the attitude of the prospect. ”
- W. Clement Stone- Copy
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“ Peace … was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible. ”
- Elizabeth Goudge- Copy
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“ Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. ”
- Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher- Copy
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“ Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having. ”
- Alice Mary Hilton- Copy
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