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Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.
Wendell BerryRead
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
Don DelilloRead
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.
Jacques BarzunRead
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
Abigail AdamsRead
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Oscar WildeRead
Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
Toni MorrisonRead
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it
Pedro Calderon De La BarcaRead
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
Charles SpurgeonRead
This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.
William ShakespeareRead
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Charlotte BronteRead
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
Charlotte BronteRead
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
George EliotRead
The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinRead
Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.
Stephen SondheimRead
Everything depends on upbringing.
Leo TolstoyRead
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin FranklinRead
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal
Martin AmisRead
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.
Virginia WoolfRead

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