Quotes About Dependence

The world is getting less and less predictable, and we rely more and more on technologies that have errors and interactions that are harder to estimate, let alone predict.

But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind:

I have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone else's arbitrary opinion, particularly when much of what's done inside large corporations violates my sense of ethics.

when something is in relation to something else, that something else can be manipulated.

Even more: dependence on circumstances—rather, the emotions that arise from circumstances—induces a form of slavery.

I have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone else's arbitrary opinion

The turkey problem can be generalized to any situation where the same hand that feeds you can be the one that wrings your neck. Consider

We can see that my activity in the market (and other random variables) depends far less on where I think the market or the random variable is going so much as it does on the degree of error I allow around such a confidence level.

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.

Keep me warm. I have no warmth of my own- only what the sun brings me, and the sun is halfway around the world. Keep me warm.

Morrison kept looking to everyone else, probably hoping someone would provide him with an opinion, because he wasn't ready to have one of his own.

Czy ludzie mogli zrobi? co? takiego? Czy mogliby?my walczy? ze sob? o te ratuj?ce ?ycie maszyny, zamieniaj?c je w sterty bezu?ytecznego metalu? Czy mogliby?my tak mocno pragn?? wody, ?e byliby?my gotowi zniszczy? urz?dzenia zdolne j? dla nas wytworzy? - tylko po to, ?eby otrzyma? pierwszy ?yk?

I am nothing without Risa.

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

love needs too much help, he said. hate takes care of itself.

I wait on my fix: I am a poetry junkie.

crawled like a blind slug into the web

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

No me enorgullecía de mi soledad, pero dependía de ella. La oscuridad de la habitación era fortificante para mí como lo era la luz del sol para otros hombres.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took. On

Joe wasn't coming. It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. a perfect setup, for 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are God. a dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat, and many times, neither can I.

Far from being dependent on big-game hunting, most Indians lived on farms.