146 Quotes About Dependence
- Author Cameron C. Taylor
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Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.
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- Author Auberon Herbert
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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
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- Author Criss Jami
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An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.
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- Author Daniel Yergin
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The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader development. Continuing wealth from the single commodity is taken for granted. The government, flush with wealth, is expected to be generous. When the price of that commodity drops, a government which would remain in power dare not cut back on this generosity.
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- Author Eugene H. Peterson
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Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds out and the machines are in good repair, we don't need to pray.
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- Author Randy Alcorn
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Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?
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- Author Baltasar Gracián
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He who has slaked his thirst, immediately turns his back on the well, no longer needing it. When dependence disappears, so does civility and decency, and then respect.
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- Author David Hewson
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Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77
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- Author Robert Hayden
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In time, you will come to regard my questioningwith a certain pained amusement; in time, get soyou would hardly find it possible to live withoutmy joke and me.
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