Quotes with condition

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  • L. Ron Hubbard There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Ronald Laing There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexis Carrel Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • George Santayana To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Leonard Cohen To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Arthur Keith Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Edmund Burke Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • William Ellery Channing Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Malcolm X Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Variety is the condition of harmony.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Troward We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Barbara Jordan 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
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • A. Philip Randolph We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less... This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Roland Barthes What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Carl Sandburg When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
    Wade House: one of Wisconsins first stagecoach inns, its preservation and restoration, Kohler Co., 1957, p. 7
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Margaret Sackville When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
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  • Hector Hugh Munro When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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