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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity;… — Barack Obama
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it. — Ken Bruen
You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn… — Sarah Dessen
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical… — Adrienne Rich
Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with… — Alice Sebold
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended… — Christopher McDougall
I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your… — Anne Lamott
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather,… — J D Salinger
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How… — Elisabeth Elliot
The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them. — Barry Hughart
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,… — Jane Austen
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.… — Howard Zinn
They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids… — Ellen Potter
But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . .… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of… — Jane Austen
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her. — Ann Brashares
Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even… — Jay-Z
He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her. — Karen Marie Moning
Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon,… — Leslie Marmon Silko
Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of… — John Bradshaw
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and… — Madeleine Albright

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