#depends

You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know? ↗

— Alison Lohman

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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. ↗

— Herman Melville

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It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ↗

— Upton Sinclair

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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

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When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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