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• To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods

  Frances Perkins

  Believe, Civilization, Police

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• I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

  Sigmar Polke

  Opportunity, Thinking, Luck

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• There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Law, Sorrow, Study

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1865). “Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh”, p.166

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• Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always look at yourself from the outside. Even as a child I always observed myself and the world. I believe that everyone who chooses this path in any way, who chooses to be a describer of life, suffers from this condition. It's like a mental obsession. It can be a great pity too. It robs you of a certain joy in spontaneity.

  Michael Haneke

  Children, Believe, People

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• Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Civilization, Needs

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1960). “My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST”

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• You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

  Lou Gerstner

  Reality, Goal, Culture

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• Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

  Annie Besant

  Ignorance, Character, Essentials

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• Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

  Cotton Mather

  Land, Wilderness, Passing

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• Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Return, Socialism, Primitive

  Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley (2011). “The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B”, p.531, Cambridge University Press

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• We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

  Ken Robinson

  Moving, Agriculture, People

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• You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

  Ken Robinson

  Development, Outcomes, Farmers

  "How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 17, 2012.

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• To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Gains, Made, Insight

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.149, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We cannot be fearful all the time; we have to rise above our fear, whatever is to happen to us, however our conditions may challenge us. To be fearless is a decision that one must make. And this fearlessness becomes the fundamental ground of nonviolence.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Decision, Fearless, Challenges

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• The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Hero, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2316, Delphi Classics

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• The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.

  Gunther Rall

  Fighting, Aviation, Accepting

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• The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than the individual who subjects himself to battle shorn of any protection but his own skill, his own belief in himself and in his wingman. Righteousness is necessary for one's peace of mind, perhaps, but it is a poor substitute for agility . . . and a resolution to meet the enemy under any conditions and against any odds.

  Robert S. Johnson

  Men, Odds, Skills

  Robert S. Johnson, Martin Caidin “Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace”, Lulu.com

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• Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

  James Forten

  Tyrants, America, Long

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• We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

  George Soros

  Political, Democracy, Triumph

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.11, PublicAffairs

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• When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

  George Soros

  Gold, Investing, Moments

  "Soros and Paulson move in opposite directions as gold declines" by Tom Bawden, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2011.

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• I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.

  Mike Holder

  Golf, Player, Competition

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• All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.

  Harvey Penick

  Golf, Player, Meditation

  Harvey Penick (2011). “The Game for a Lifetime: More Lessons and Teachings”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Conversion

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.

  E. B. White

  Two, Self, Strange

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• Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives

  Wayne Dyer

  Doe, Given, Know How

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.451, Hay House, Inc

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• That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

  Neil Kinnock

  Liberty, Economic, Assets

  Speech to National Housing and Town Planning Conference in Bournemouth, October 28, 1986.

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