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• I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Thinking, Black History

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.160, Frederick Douglass

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• Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Beautiful, Art, Science

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• Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Gathering

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• Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

  Amelia Barr

  Being Alone, Voice, Solitude

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.317, Library of Alexandria

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• Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Life, Happiness, People

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• Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Higher, Fruitful Life

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• In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  William Styron

  Sad, Depression, Crush

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• Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Health, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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• Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you
  in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor
  to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its
  loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't
  catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?

  Judith Martin

  Summer, Cheer, Food

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• God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Forgiveness, Wise, Forgiving

  Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix”, p.114

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• Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Freedom, Real, Knowledge

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• One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Character, Men

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• All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

  William James

  Happiness, Pain, Routine

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.553, Courier Corporation

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• Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Men, Occupation

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• Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, People, Insanity

  "Superpower, Real and Unreal" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2005.

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• In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality of human existence. The forces and powers necessary for this world were bestowed upon him in that limited condition. In this world he needed eyes; he received them potentially in the other. He needed ears; he obtained them there in readiness and preparation for his new existence. The powers requisite in this world were conferred upon him in the world of the matrix.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Eye, Reality

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• The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.

  Auguste Comte

  Knowledge, Science, Law

  Auguste Comte (1975). “Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings”, p.68, Transaction Publishers

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• Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

  Frantz Fanon

  People, Want

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Taming, Body

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.351

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• Every man has within himself the entire human condition

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Human Condition, Humans

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• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Party, Struggle

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.272, Penguin

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• Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Political, Enemy

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.142, Createspace Independent Pub

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• The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Mean, Perfection

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• Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5.' The evil spirit v vanishes; and ... that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic ... One result after another follows in quick succession till at last ... we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Science, Expression, Evil

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• To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Success, Creativity, Independent

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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