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• Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation

  Mother Jones

  Struggle, Work Out, Arizona

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• The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Liberty, Prohibition

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• Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Past, Men, Hands

  Journal of Scientology Issue 1-G, 1952.

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• It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

  Dion Fortune

  May, Gains, Used

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.106, Dion Fortune

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• Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Ideas, Quests

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning household or domain. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is its management. Ecologists try to define the conditions and principles that enable a species to survive and flourish. Yet in elevating the economy above those principles, we seem to think we are immune to the laws of nature. We have to put the ‘eco’ back into economics.

  David Suzuki

  Home, Thinking, Law

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• Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

  Bryan Clay

  Needs, Records, World

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• If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.

  Catherine Ponder

  Laughter, Healing, Health

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• Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Inspirational, Change, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 28, 2013

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• This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of no unknown or uncertain cause, but only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religious, Strong, Alive

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.404, Transaction Publishers

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• Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.

  Jacque Fresco

  New York, Cities, Drug

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, Gambling

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• You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems.  In scarcity, people will tend to steal.  If you make things available, people tend not to steal.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Design, Scarcity

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• You can't exceed the system with language.  You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better.  You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate...  You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind.  And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur.  In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Design, Events

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• As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can be tested by observation.  He will realize that the history of human thought shows that the ideas of which we are surest are the ones we most need to test.  He will realize that his common sense only mirrors his training and experience.  What seems natural and right to him is usually a reflection of the conditions under which he spent his first decade of life.

  Jacque Fresco

  Reflection, Men, Ideas

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• We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Idiot, Young, Born

  "Jonah Goldberg: Young People Are ‘So Frickin Stupid,’ Voting Age Should Be Higher" by Anna Mazarakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hurt, Taken, Compassion

  "Ignore the Young, Forget the Old" by Tavis Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

  Benjamin Graham

  Loss, Quality, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

  Benjamin Graham

  Forever, Lasts

  Benjamin Graham, David Dodd (2002). “Security Analysis: The Classic 1940 Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The way we use our money is a barometer of our present spiritual condition. Our neglect of the poor illustrates much about where our hearts lie. But even more than that, the way we use our money is an indicator of our eternal destination. The mark of Christ followers is that their hearts are in heaven and their treasures are spent there

  David Platt

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

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• Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.

  Sun Tzu

  Ignorance, Army, Years

  The Art of War (6th century b.c.).

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• A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

  Allen Tate

  Two, Quality, Three

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

  Walker Percy

  Lying, Book, Human Condition

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays”, p.251, Open Road Media

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• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  Harpo Marx

  Brother, New York, Children

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• I believe that there are three conditions to a woman’s beauty. First, you must realize that not all women are beautiful all of the time. Sometimes beauty comes on a subconscious level. When she is in love, or has met someone new and exciting, she shines. Second, you must understand that life is unfair. Beauty is something that, for some, must be worked at. The third condition is luck. Some women can just be lucky.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Beautiful, Believe, Shining

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