Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1399 authors
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
— Alan Greenspan
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I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found,…
— Alexander P. de Seversky
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is not going to be, we can be quite certain, there's not going to be any action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by China…
— Ross Garnaut
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it…
— George Washington
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Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and…
— Lord Byron
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a…
— Ernest K. Gann
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The first condition of immortality is death.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!
— Yogi Berra
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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than…
— Michael Parenti
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Foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition
— Paulo Coelho
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You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half…
— Harriet Martineau
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
— Oscar Wilde
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