Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1358 authors
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Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either…
— Edward Gibbon
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Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.
— Wiley Miller
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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics…
— John C. Portman, Jr.
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It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a…
— David R. Brower
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
— Ferdinand Foch
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The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made-or failed to make. (Not to decide is…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius…
— William James
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Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . .…
— Alexander H. Stephens
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its…
— Unknown Author
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I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
— Unknown Author
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It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun…
— Epictetus
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The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was…
— John Bunyan
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It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your…
— John Flavel
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Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be…
— John Flavel
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I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities…
— Thomas Merton
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Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always…
— Michael Haneke
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Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
— Cotton Mather
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