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Dependent Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of…
- Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets…
- The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
More Dependent Quotes
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on… — Gary Bauer
- The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of… — Wendell Berry
- Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school… — Rod Blagojevich
- Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. — Tony Blair
- Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent. — Lionel Blue
- I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or… — Edward de Bono
- Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems… — James Buchan
- We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy… — Jimmy Carter
- The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large… — Jimmy Carter
- Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent… — Giacomo Casanova
- All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume