Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1399 authors
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
— Anatole France
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is…
— Mark Twain
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of…
— Karl Marx
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There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth…
— Mike Figgis
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If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime,…
— Tommy Douglas
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Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You…
— Vernon Howard
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What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your thought be good…
— Emmet Fox
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...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
— Seneca the Younger
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain…
— John Stuart Mill
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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
— Bill Gates
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Surely joy is the condition of life.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of…
— John Updike
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It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless…
— Steven Weinberg
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The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the…
— Ravi Zacharias
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