Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1358 authors
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The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
— Hu Shih
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A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
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War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for…
— Alfred Hermann Fried
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Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our…
— Unknown Author
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto…
— Parker J. Palmer
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this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we…
— Sun Tzu
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Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of…
— Nikola Tesla
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Athletes that can't listen, can condition.
— Chuck Daly
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him…
— Arthur Koestler
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Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to…
— Steve Pavlina
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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
— Hilary Mantel
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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an…
— John P. Jumper
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