Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1358 authors
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I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature…
— Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent…
— Javier Perez de Cuellar
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RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable…
— Ambrose Bierce
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So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk…
— Gunter Grass
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All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
— Edward Gibbon
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Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
— Henry Fielding
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Hope is necessary in every condition.
— Samuel Johnson
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My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable.…
— Roger L'Estrange
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Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life,…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution…
— E. O. Wilson
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Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.
— Chester Barnard
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The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion,
— George Inness
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have…
— Ai Weiwei
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Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
— Ai Weiwei
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
— Ai Weiwei
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Impurities are constantly and imperceptibly passing from the body, through the pores, and if the surface of the skin is not kept in a healthy…
— Ellen G. White
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