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• Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom.

  Edward Gibbon

  Opportunity, Years, History

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.29, Modern Library

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• The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

  Stephen Covey

  Reflection, Determined, Social

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.78, Mango Media Inc.

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• A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

  V. Vale

  Tattoo, Eye, Unique

  V. Vale, Andrea Juno (1989). “Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual”, V/Search

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• Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence, diversity, private judgement-disappear.

  James Surowiecki

  Intelligent, Diversity, Decision

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• The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. (Not to decide is to decide.) The Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1996.

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• If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Faith, Fall, Insane Person

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.87, Institute of GS

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• It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mind, Statistics, Existence

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• NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Skills, Trying

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• Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for

  Christopher Dawson

  Men, Long, Giving

  Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.122, CUA Press

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• Well, I have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model that didn't get recalled. This new model has an accelerator that goes wild, but only under certain conditions of cruise control. And I can repeat it over and over and over again--safely.

  Steve Wozniak

  Cruise, Prius, Certain

  "Wozniak cites 'scary' Prius acceleration problem" By Brooke Crothers, www.cnet.com. February 1, 2010.

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• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. King Hussein Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

  Barbara Jordan

  Kings, Mistake, Dark

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• When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on as plainly as we can speak, and tell them of their sin, and shame, and misery: and we expect, not only that they should bear all patiently, but take all thankfully, and we have good reasons for all this; and most that I deal with do take it patiently... But if we speak to a godly minister against his errors or any sin... if it be not more an applause than a reprehension, they take it as an injury almost insufferable.

  Richard Baxter

  Godly, Men, Errors

  "Gildas Salvianus; the Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work". Book by Richard Baxter, 1656.

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• Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of your love. People often get possession mixed up with love, and they say, "If you really loved me, you would call me." How - when life is going on? I think of you all the time, and the thought of you always lifts my spirits. But I'm not right at the phone!

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Phones, People

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• They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

  Frank Herbert

  Violence, Quiet, Speak

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.170, Penguin

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• A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Broken Heart, Hate, Disease

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

  Bob Geldof

  Depression, Thinking, Opposites

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• Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Equality, Rights

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Attitude, Children

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966".

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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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• If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Happiness, Survival, Routine

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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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• 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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