Conditions Quotes - Page 25

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

Kate Chopin

Arbitrary, Cost, Moral

Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.151, Kate Chopin

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And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

Juan Goytisolo

White, Spain, Elements

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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

Hosea Ballou

Sleep, Serenity, Welcome

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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!

Utah Phillips

Eight, Hands, Giving

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I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the
downtrodden of every race and language and color.'

Thaddeus Stevens

Lying, Ambition, Race

Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.524, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

Thaddeus Stevens

Depends

Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.45, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

S. I. Hayakawa

People, Definitions, Noise

S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”

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Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Thinking, Want, Should

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I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

Warren G. Harding

Climbing, Yosemite, Caps

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Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Eric Ries

Creating, Kind, Entrepreneurship

Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.35, Crown Business

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A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Eric Ries

Institutions, Extremes, New Products

"What is a startup?". www.startuplessonslearned.com. June 21, 2010.

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Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal.

Rudolf Rocker

Believe, Expression, Order

Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.15, AK Press

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For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

Scarlett Thomas

Encouragement, Love Is, Orchids

Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

Adi Da

Heart, Moments, Appearance

Adi Da Samraj (2005). “Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else”, p.3, North Atlantic Books

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A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

F. C. S. Schiller

Believe, Mind, Facts

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It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

David F. Houston

Agriculture, Important, Crops

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Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

Mary Travers

Human Condition, Concern, Folks

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What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.

Leonard Ravenhill

Zero, Men, America

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There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

Denis Hayes

Acceptance, Smell, Sulfur

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The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

Herbert Spencer

Law, Giving, Survival

"Mr. Martineau on Evolution" (1872) See Darwin 7; Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 5

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To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

Robert Falcon Scott

Waiting, Worst

Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2006). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.57, OUP Oxford

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In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

Paul Greengrass

Real, Drama, Acting

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Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

Kate Millett

Important, Would Be, Sexuality

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As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

Bill Frist

Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Bob Riley

Jobs, Government, Doe

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