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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

William Shirley
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Caesar Rodney
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
Thomas Francis Meagher
The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent.
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
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Charlie Dent
Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
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James M. Baldwin
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