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• A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Boxing, Body

  Twitter post from Jun 17, 2011

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• Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  War, Food, Wine

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 14, 1799.

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• Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Past, Sight

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.155, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

  Mark Twain

  Revolution, Sides

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.542, University of Alabama Press

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• The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Order, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.

  Philippe Petit

  Other Worlds, Feelings, Boundaries

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• I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Twilight, Wish, Quality

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• The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

  Gustav Landauer

  Real, Men, Community

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• In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Liberty, Humiliation, Wanted

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• Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Nature, Keys, Sailing

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• Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Perception, Way, World

  Stephen Batchelor (1983). “Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism”, p.98, Grove Press

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• One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

  Alec Wilkinson

  Inspirational, Funny, Ice

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• Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving the body 'uncontrolled' is spoken of, what is meant is simply allowing the body to remain in an authentic, uncorrected condition, in which it is not necessary to modify or improve anything. This is because, since all our attempts at correcting the body come from the reasoning mind, they are all false and artificial.

  Namkhai Norbu

  Leaving, Mind, Body

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• You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Stars, Light, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need Equality, and we kind of need it now. 'So why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you're still asking that question.

  Joss Whedon

  Strong, Writing, Character

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• Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.

  Casey Affleck

  Pigs, Painful Death, Cows

  YouTube Channel "peta2TV"/"Casey Affleck's Banned 'Go Vegan' PSA", February 06, 2013.

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• At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.

  Gerard Butler

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple: When Im put under pressure, I cant perform. Even the phenomenon Im most known for. When Im on stage, Im not under pressure and it happens. In other important places, it happens. But in a laboratory where I really want it to happen, its very hard for me.

  Uri Geller

  Simple, Important, Answers

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• I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

  Hector Elizondo

  Thinking, Comedy, Human Condition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition. Washing works the biceps and then the triceps by conditioning. And vigorously rubbing all of your body with soap really defines the abs and the pectoral muscles. And if you do squats while you're bathing - that's it!

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Workout, Long, Biceps

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• If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests.

  Richard Dawkins

  Medicine, Alternatives, Tests

  "The Enemies of Reason". Documentary, 2007.

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• If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

  Richard Serra

  Deception, Sculpture, Planes

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• I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's life and try to learn everything about him, including the conditions under which he came into this world, his parentage, his environment, his social status, and the things in which he is interested. Then I attempt to get his mental attitude as much as possible.

  William Powell

  Attitude, Trying, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

  Gregory Hines

  Way, Entertainment, Honest

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• As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

  Diane Keaton

  Feelings, Actresses, Emotion

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