Conditions Quotes - Page 35

• When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Believe, Doubt

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

  Ernst Mach

  Struggle, Men, Average

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• The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

  Michel de Certeau

  Practice, Cities, Oblivion

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Experience, Safe

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• Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

  David Mixner

  Home, Nursing, People

  "Millions of Lives Will Be Changed By Home Health Care Cuts" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Blood, Development, Firsts

  "Lee Kuan Yew: Race, culture and genes". Artiicle by Michael D. Barr. Journal of Contemporary Asia 29(2):145-67, www.researchgate.net. January 1999.

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• Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Everyday, United States, Missionary

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Revolution in World Missions”, Gfa Books

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• Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.

  Mark McCormack

  Inspirational, Thinking, Years

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• Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of the world’s population. Already there are many who prefer this crowded life, but there are others who do not, and these will gradually be eliminated. Life in the crowded conditions of cities has many unattractive features, but in the long run these may be overcome, not so much by altering them, but simply by changing the human race into liking them.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Running, Men, Civilization

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• It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Cures, Human Condition, Teach

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• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  Jack Levine

  Men, Concerned

  Kenneth Wade Prescott, Jack Levine (1978). “Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, Graphics”

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• Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Long, Waiting, Excuse

  Bernd Heinrich (1994). “A Year in the Maine Woods”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Atmosphere, Foundation

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

  John T. Flynn

  Long, Today, Way

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• Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

  Herman Kahn

  Technology, Issues, Decision

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• The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Lying, Views, Stories

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• Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Long, Passed Away, Contracts

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Real, Fall, Men

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• Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

  Susan Griffin

  Roles, Modern Woman, Virtue

  Susan Griffin (2002). “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues”, p.17, Broadway Books

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• Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Abuse, Age, Doe

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• Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Aquariums, Heaven

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• As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Bears, Neurology

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

  Clayton Christensen

  Average, Years, Physicians

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• The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Lying, Goal, Rejection

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• NEEMO missions are a challenging and exciting aspect of astronaut training. The research we conduct during those missions allows us to test new technologies and exploration concepts in conditions similar to the ones we'll experience in space. They are a great opportunity to help me expand my knowledge and develop new tools for future space exploration.

  Jeremy Hansen

  Technology, Opportunity, Space

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