Condition Quotes

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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of… — Carl Sandburg
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. — George Santayana
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die. — Jose Saramago
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. — Marilyn vos Savant
I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours.… — Eric Schmidt
And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition. — Howard Schultz
What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal.… — Will Self
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think… — Will Self
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. — William Shatner
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. — George Bernard Shaw
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in… — Douglas Sirk
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate. — Iain Duncan Smith
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a… — Zadie Smith
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist… — Susan Sontag
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. — George Soros
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at… — Wole Soyinka
I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition. — Rick Springfield
A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one… — Lysander Spooner
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see… — Lysander Spooner

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