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Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty…
— John Philpot Curran
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The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites…
— William O. Douglas
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The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
— Samuel Johnson
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I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and…
— Maya Angelou
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it…
— Angela Carter
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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for…
— Stephen Covey
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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of…
— John Maynard Keynes
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There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
— Winston Churchill
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It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary…
— Oswald Avery
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I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all…
— Stephen Hawking
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Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its…
— Thomas Aquinas
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...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere…
— Lewis Thomas
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The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the…
— Claude Bernard
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All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
— Bertrand Russell
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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,…
— John Owen
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The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...…
— John Stuart Mill
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Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.
— John Dewey
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be…
— Max Wertheimer
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One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would…
— Stephen Hawking
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Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a…
— Albert Einstein
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