Conditions Quotes - Page 24

• If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Atheism, Trying

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

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• Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

  Stephen King

  Laughter, Self, Laughing

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.676, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

  John Ashcroft

  World, Capacity, Remains

  "Ashcroft defends FBI's Mueller". www.cnn.com. May 31, 2002.

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• Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

  Janet Fitch

  Loneliness, Tunnels, Soul

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Covered Up, Strange, Consciousness

  Isaac Rosenberg (1979). “The collected works of Isaac Rosenberg: poetry, prose, letters, paintings, and drawings”

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• We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until about 2007, ... But this finding seems to be telling us that conditions on the dark side of the rings are almost as good right now for seeing spokes.

  Carolyn Porco

  Dark, Sides, Spokes

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• There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Anger, Doe, Elements

  "Nicholas Kristof: The Crisis of Our Times". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 28, 2005.

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• Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable

  Steven Erikson

  Ambition, Law, Humanity

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• Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.

  Kenneth Burke

  Animal, Men, Order

  Kenneth Burke (1973). “Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method”, p.16, Univ of California Press

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• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  Barbara Boxer

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Heart, Feel Better

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Education, Children, Responsibility

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1981). “Evaluation to Improve Learning”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

  Benjamin Bloom

  School, Years, World

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom, Lauren A. Sosniak (1985). “Developing talent in young people”

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• And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

  Tycho Brahe

  Science, Men, Sky

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• It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

  Grover Cleveland

  Political, Politics, Theory

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.246, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

  Thomas Cole

  Artist, Perfect, Poet

  Howard S. Merritt, Thomas Cole, Hudson River Museum (1981). “To walk with nature: the drawings of Thomas Cole : an exhibition”

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• It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another; and whether the form in which slavery exists in the South is not but one modification of this universal condition... Let those who are interested remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

  John C. Calhoun

  Country, Community, Slavery

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• To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.80, Penguin

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• To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Grace, Gone

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.188, New World Library

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• In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

  Jacobus Arminius

  Men, Grace, Useless

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• Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

  Denis Waitley

  Long, Desire, Enough Time

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• Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.

  Michel Patini

  Messi, Firsts, Being The Best

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• A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

  Gary Neville

  Player, Four, Awareness

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• I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

  Jay Inslee

  Real, Air, Years

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• Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Commodity, Selling

  "Dictator lit: Castro's clunking Che memoir", www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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