Conditions Quotes - Page 14

• Love is the true condition of human life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Love Is, Human Life, Humans

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• Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of necessity to protect oneself, and are not continued but are instead converted into the greatest possible benefits for the subjects. Badly used are those cruelties which. although being few at the outset, grow with the passing time instead of disappearing. Those who follow the first method can remedy their condition with God and with men; the others cannot possibly survive.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Evil, Done

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.75, Penguin

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• We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.

  Saul Bellow

  Mean, Choices, Tragedy

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.90, Penguin

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• If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

  James T. Farrell

  Writing, Ifs, Taking Action

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• The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly
  bring to you the conditions, environment and experiences in life,
  corresponding with your habitual, characteristic, predominant mental attitude. Not what you think about once in a while
  when you are in church, or have just read a good book,
  BUT your predominant mental attitude is what counts.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Attitude, Book, Thinking

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, People, Choices

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• Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.

  Meg Rosoff

  Responsibility, Accepting

  Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.45, Penguin UK

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• Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

  Antonio Gramsci

  Revolution, Spirit, Creation

  "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.

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• A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Exercise, Winning, Groups

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• The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

  Theodor Adorno

  Objectivity, Suffering, Needs

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• The necessary condition for an image is sight.

  Roland Barthes

  Sight

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• The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Littles, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things. ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.

  John le Carre

  Real, Writing, Artist

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• When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on as plainly as we can speak, and tell them of their sin, and shame, and misery: and we expect, not only that they should bear all patiently, but take all thankfully, and we have good reasons for all this; and most that I deal with do take it patiently... But if we speak to a godly minister against his errors or any sin... if it be not more an applause than a reprehension, they take it as an injury almost insufferable.

  Richard Baxter

  Godly, Men, Errors

  "Gildas Salvianus; the Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work". Book by Richard Baxter, 1656.

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• A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be.  It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living.  Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

  Mark Strand

  Busy, Imagine, Permit

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• When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

  James Joyce

  Country, Men, Self

  James Joyce (1959). “Critical writings”

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• To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous amount of strength and courage. I work over and over again so I dont disappoint those people.

  BoA

  Love You, Giving, People

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• Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

  Frank Herbert

  Affair, Increase, Should

  Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade

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• Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Errors, Tests, Handle

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• The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

  Helen Keller

  Determination, Character, Tests

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.106, American Foundation for the Blind

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• The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Fighting, Compromise, Refusal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

  B. F. Skinner

  Art, Philosophy, War

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• A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Business, Heart

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• And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. [Isaiah] describes the condition when [he] states, "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them." and then these words follow-and consider these words seriously when you think of those political leaders who are promoting birth control and abortion: "O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Father, Home

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• If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.

  Ignace Lepp

  Friendship, Nature, Emotional

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