Quotes with conditions

  • More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.
  • Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
  • In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
  • The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
  • It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
  • Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
  • Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
  • There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
  • Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
  • Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
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  • Anthony Robbins More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Barbara Sher ''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Allen Tate 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
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Camille Paglia Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bill Maris As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Brad Stone As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Eric Butterworth Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Oscar Wilde Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Updike Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Assata Shakur Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
    Source: Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bodhidharma But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
    Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Arthur Keith Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Irving Kristol Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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  • Alan Cohen Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Emile Durkheim Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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