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• Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in the military hospitals, and she fought like crazy to change the conditions; to make sure that the doctors washed their hands and practiced sanitary measures. She put herself at great risks.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Crazy, Military, Doctors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  Larry Elder

  War, Stupid, People

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.253, Macmillan

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• Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Rome, Hopeless

  "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times". Book by Charles Derber, p. 12, 2017.

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• Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Sex, Children, Homeless

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1996). “Only Words”, p.20, Harvard University Press

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• Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

  Pope Paul VI

  Two, Historic, Armament

  Sermon by Pope Paul VI at the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal (May 13, 1967), as reported in The New York Times (p. 47), May 14, 1967.

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  Hannah Arendt

  Women, Thinking, Tyrants

  In W. H. Auden A Certain World (1970) p. 369

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• We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, Should, Planets

  "Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead'" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

  Emile Chartier

  Sadness, Profound, Black

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• I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

  Nick Offerman

  Technology, Thinking, Laziness

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said "Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one?" If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.

  Alice Munro

  Thinking, Phones, Trying

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• Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

  Helen Rowland

  Heart, Men, Broken

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Stress, Sleep, Decision

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Attitude, Our World

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• To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.202, Modern Library

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• It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Believe, Doubt, Form

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• Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Spiritual, Differences

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.177, New World Library

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• See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.

  C. S. Lewis

  Judging, Bears, Dens

  C. S. Lewis (2005). “The wisdom of Narnia”

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• The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Decay, Pieces

  Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.21, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I'd call it a triumph.

  Dean Koontz

  Morning, Eye, Journey

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• Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love Is, Zodiac, Spirit

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• ... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Orange, Law

  A Clockwork Orange (1962) p. 21

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• Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Memories, Struggle

  Herbert Marcuse (1978). “The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics”, Beacon Pr

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• I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.

  Julio Cortazar

  Book, Cat, Age

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• Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

  Jane Yolen

  Important, Helping, Language

  Jane Yolen (1981). “Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood”, Philomel

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• Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Memories, Desire, Impulse

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.142, Vintage

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