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• When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of society. Liberty, truth, probity, honor, are declared to be the four cardinal principles of society. I believe that morality, compassion, generosity, are innate elements of the human constitution; that there exists a right independent of force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Independent, Compassion

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fall, Animal, Advantage

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.49, Dial Press

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• I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.

  John Quincy Adams

  Life, Book, Men

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• If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Life, Intelligent, Civilization

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Perfect, Weakness, Glimpse

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• The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Love Is, Objectivity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Book, Writing

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  World, Venture, Helping

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.105, Beacon Press

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• It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

  Uta Hagen

  Ideas, Language, Interpretation

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.

  Karl Marx

  Race, Maintenance, Alive

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

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• In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Development, Association

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.71, Haymarket Books

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• Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Earthquakes, Race

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1962). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Britain”

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• As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.

  Karl Marx

  Individual, Produce, Materials

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.42, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth.
  The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms.

  Hannah Arendt

  Practice, Storm, Desert

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence.  The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, World, Makers

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• Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

  Louis Althusser

  Men, Demand, Existence

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• Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

  Louis Althusser

  Real, Individual, Existence

  Louis Althusser (2008). “On Ideology”, Verso Books

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• The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production

  Louis Althusser

  Ultimate, Reproduction, Productions

  Louis Althusser (2001). “Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.85, NYU Press

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• The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter

  Gilles Deleuze

  Thinking, Encounters, Fundamentals

  Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.176, A&C Black

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• The problem is not the claycourt. The problem is, you know, rather something to do with the conditions on center court. Because I've played well on Suzanne Lenglen, on the other courts. But the Chatrier court is really, really big, and I just haven't had enough play on it. Maybe I come here next year and play a week on this court, if I can, if the French Federation lets me. We'll see. I've been playing well in other tournaments, in Davis Cup on clay. So for me it's not the surface, it's rather maybe the court.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Play, Cups

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• If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Humility, Perspective, Language

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• As president, my goal in Afghanistan will be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. I will evaluate conditions on the ground and solicit the best advice of our military commanders. And I will affirm that my duty is not to my political prospects, but to the security of the nation.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Successful, Goal

  Remarks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Reno, Nevada, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 24, 2012.

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• The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Average, Numbers

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “Virginia Woolf, women and writing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Passion, Sacrifice, Self

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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• We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

  Alan Shepard

  College, Would Be, Financial

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