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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. -- Thomas Jefferson
Dependence leads to subservience. -- Thomas Jefferson
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness. -- Swami Vivekananda
Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson
Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me! -- Bruce Wilkinson
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. -- Joseph Addison
Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation. -- Mike Pompeo
Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort. -- Philip Yancey
Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune. -- Jeremy Collier
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. -- Friedrich Schleiermacher
We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence. -- Marco Rubio
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. -- Seneca the Younger
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically. -- Ron Kind
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence. -- Paul Ryan
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. -- Dorothy Dix
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. -- John Ciardi
You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party. -- Jim DeMint
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. -- Dan Lipinski
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? -- Mary Wollstonecraft
At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. -- Roh Moo-hyun
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. -- Fred Allen
We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world. -- Bernie Sanders
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability. -- Jim Clyburn
In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness. -- Carre Otis
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. -- Ruth St. Denis
Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional. -- James Dobson
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. -- Seth Low
The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent. -- Julius Wellhausen
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high. -- Al Gore
Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally. -- Marcus Samuelsson
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence -- Samuel Johnson
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self -- John Gay
Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist -- Proverb
It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence. -- Franklin Pierce
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory -- Douglas MacArthur
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image -- Nelson Mandela
Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control. -- David Icke
Prayer means dependence on the Lord. -- Joseph Prince
A warrior balances solitude and dependence. -- Paulo Coelho
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. -- William Jennings Bryan
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence. -- Samuel Johnson
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need. -- Blaise Pascal
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God. -- Philip Yancey
Trust in God, the dependence on supernatural powers! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
True humility means total dependence on God for everything. -- T. B. Joshua
Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage. -- Muriel Fox
Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence -- Jenna Jameson
Russia's main weaknesses are inflexibility and dependence on energy resources -- Christopher A. Pissarides
No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence. -- Fanny Fern
we all are connected by our needs and support-that's dependence -- lity munshi
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity. -- Simone de Beauvoir
co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel ... -- Linda Ellerbee
Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous. -- Robert Genn
Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress. -- Ban Ki-moon
Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence. -- James Dobson
Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom. -- G. Edward Griffin
bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does. -- Shirley MacLaine
If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy. -- Charlie Dent
I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum. -- Marcy Kaptur
We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence. -- Dillon Burroughs
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence. -- Voltaire
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. -- Seneca the Younger
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. -- James A. Garfield
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. -- Thomas Hobbes
There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism, -- Stephen Harper
To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. -- George Washington
We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels -- Richard Branson
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. -- Walter Benjamin
One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. -- Tim Holden
Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence. -- Cal Thomas
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics -- Tony Juniper
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day. -- Ronald Reagan
This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels. -- Jim Wallis
We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources. -- Sylvia Earle
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. -- Susan B. Anthony
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. -- John Gay
Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life. -- Elizabeth George
Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence. -- Daryl Hannah
Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life. -- Elizabeth George
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. -- William Shenstone
Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it. -- Eugene Sue
South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government. -- Laura Ingraham
I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God. -- Bobby Bowden
Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love? -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. -- Lincoln Diaz-Balart
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. -- Cyril Connolly
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. -- Samuel Johnson
Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves. -- Myles Horton
Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength. -- Jim George
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food. -- Dallas Willard
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry." -- Thomas Jefferson
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. -- Thomas Jefferson
It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices. -- Lysa TerKeurst
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. -- Octavio Paz
Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power. -- Oswald Chambers
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being. -- Benjamin Franklin
Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us. -- George Washington
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. -- James S. Coleman
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. -- Ian Mcewan
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe -- Barack Obama
Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence. -- Gary Hopkins
True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within. -- Ray Stedman
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy. -- Ilchi Lee
God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness. -- Bruce Wilkinson
Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth -- Susan B. Anthony
Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity. -- Seth Klarman
The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus. -- Watchman Nee
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book. -- Bruce Lee
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him. -- Hudson Taylor
Trails are used by God to teach you humility and dependence on His grace rather than your own strength. -- Jim George
I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. -- Thomas Jefferson

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