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• I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition… — Bernard Berenson
• Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. — Samuel Johnson
• We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life. — Unknown Author
• There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too… — Oliver Lodge
• We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We… — Saul Bellow
• In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is… — Unknown Author
• Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for… — Phillips Brooks
• Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral… — Ari Shavit
• The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not… — Edmund Burke

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