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Quotes About Dependence

I unclip the lead from Abraham's collar and he stays by my side and looks up at me, confused, as if perplexed by the concept of freedom. I relate.
~ Matt Haig
A world where, in the words of American sociologist Sherry Turkle, "we expect more from technology and less from each other.
~ Matt Haig
You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.
~ Matt Haig
You require me," Atticus said. "To be your magic Negro?
~ Unknown
The moral of the story: The guy who is starving you may sincerely be trying to feed you, but his best efforts might not be enough. In the end, if you are penned in, you can be killed by simple starvation and neglect, requiring no directly malign intention by your captors. Starvation just happens naturally when insufficient food is coming
~ Unknown
God is to be trusted in the use of means.
~ Matthew Henry
In a day of prosperity we are in great danger of forgetting God, our dependence upon him, our need of him, and our obligations to him. When
~ Matthew Henry
We are apt to show our trouble too much to ourselves, aggravating it, and poring upon it, which does us no service, whereas by showing it to God we might cast the care upon him who careth for us, and thereby ease ourselves. Nor should we allow of any complaint to ourselves or others which we cannot with due decency and sincerity of devotion make to God, and stand to before him.
~ Matthew Henry
Therefore men are deceived in false gods, that they may depend on the true God only.
~ Matthew Henry
Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
~ Matthew Henry
Muchos nunca claman a Dios, hasta que están al final de su sabiduría; nunca acuden a Dios en busca de ayuda, siempre y cuando puedan ayudarse a sí mismos.
~ Unknown
T)he philosopher is a perpetual beginner. This means that he accepts nothing as established from what men or scientists believe they know. This also means that philosophy itself is an ever-renewed experiment of its own beginning , that it consists entirely in describing this beginning, and finally, that radical reflection is conscious of its own dependence on an unreflected life that is its initial, constant, and final situation.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
To constitute...is nearly the opposite of to institute: the instituted makes sense without me, the constituted makes sense only for me and for the 'me' of this instant...The instituted straddles its future, has its future its temporality, the constituted depends entirely on the 'me' who constitutes (the body, the clock).
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
To say "Hell is other people" does not mean "Heaven is me." If other people are the instruments of our torture, it is first and foremost because they are indispensable to our salvation. We are so intermingled with them that we must make what order we can out of this chaos.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
There is a kinship between the concepts of nature and radical contingency.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Tlie algorithm, the project of a universal language, is a revolt against language in its existing state and a refusal to depend upon the confusions of everyday language.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
~ Max Brooks
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
~ Unknown
It's easy when people clean up after you. Ted
~ Unknown
Body my housemy horse my houndwhat will I dowhen you are fallenQuestion [1954], st. 1
~ May Swenson
Body my house my horse my hound What will I do when you are fallen Where will I sleep How will I ride What will I hunt Where can I go without my mount all eager and quick How will I know in thicket ahead is danger or treasure When Body my good bright dog is dead How will it be to lie in the sky without roof or door and wind for an eye with cloud for a shift how will I hide?
~ May Swenson
He leaned against the door. Lord save her from men who leaned.
~ Unknown
Ne bojim se ljubavi. Bojim se rizika. I zavisnosti. I mogu?eg bola... Uvijek si jednom nogom u bjekstvu, uvijek polovinom sebe u ljubavi. Drugu ostavljam u pripravnosti da izvu?e ludaka.Ali ta moja necini?na polovina mnogo te voli.Toliko da me prevari cijelog..Ve?eras ti se nudim sav. Reci da me voliš, šta te staje?
~ Meša Selimovi?
Maloprije sam bio siguran da sam joj potreban i da ?e to re?i ne štede?i ponos. Mislio sam da sam nadmo?niji. A sad sam želio da ?ujem bilo šta o sebi, lijepo ili ružno, povoljno ili nepovoljno, ali sam to želio s bijesom, gotovo s mržnjom, osje?aju?i da mi se izmakla, da nisam za nju neophodnost.
~ Meša Selimovi?