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• Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

  Hosea Ballou

  Sleep, Serenity, Welcome

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• But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!

  Utah Phillips

  Eight, Hands, Giving

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• The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Depends

  Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.45, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  People, Definitions, Noise

  S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”

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• Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

  Eric Ries

  Creating, Kind, Entrepreneurship

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.35, Crown Business

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• A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

  Eric Ries

  Institutions, Extremes, New Products

  "What is a startup?". www.startuplessonslearned.com. June 21, 2010.

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• For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Encouragement, Love Is, Orchids

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

  Adi Da

  Heart, Moments, Appearance

  Adi Da Samraj (2005). “Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else”, p.3, North Atlantic Books

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• What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Zero, Men, America

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• There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

  Denis Hayes

  Acceptance, Smell, Sulfur

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• The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

  Herbert Spencer

  Law, Giving, Survival

  "Mr. Martineau on Evolution" (1872) See Darwin 7; Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 5

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• To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Waiting, Worst

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2006). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.57, OUP Oxford

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• Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

  Kate Millett

  Important, Would Be, Sexuality

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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

  Bob Riley

  Jobs, Government, Doe

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• As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions. Our system, therefore, so far as regards this inferior race, rests upon this great immutable law of nature.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Men, Race, White Man

  "What America Needs To Understand About Confederate Monuments" by Brandon Benner, www.theodysseyonline.com. June 12, 2017.

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• Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

  James Connolly

  Inspiration, People, Literature

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a terrific match winner in any Condition

  Sourav Ganguly

  Dhoni, Winner, Singh

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• According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

  Ernst Mayr

  Firsts, Evolution, Transformation

  "The Dynamics of Evolution: The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences". Book by Albert Somit and Steven Peterson, p. 21-48, "Speciational Evolution or Punctuated Equilibria", 1992.

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• Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Mean, Outcomes, Tiny

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• The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Rich, Poor

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• Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Kings, Bliss

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.63

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• We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

  Socrates

  Exercise, Body, Care

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• Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Work, Men, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.184

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• Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

  Zane Grey

  Fishing, Mind, Bad Times

  "Tales of Southern Rivers".

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