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• Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

  Carl Ludwig

  Animal, Tasks, Body

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• The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Justice, Imagination, Honor

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• Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Roots, Hatred, Trying

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• Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized.

  Marcus Thomas

  Dream, Speak, Existence

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• It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world - are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition.

  Marion Woodman

  Dream, Essence, Soul

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• Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3208, Delphi Classics

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• Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.

  Quint Studer

  Meaningful, Jobs, Teaching

  Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.143, John Wiley & Sons

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• When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Life, Hurt, Bird

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• At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

  James Monroe

  Country, Political, Progress

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

  Kofi Annan

  Democracy, Progress, Development

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• To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

  Basil Bunting

  Appreciate, Antiquity

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.

  Isaac Newton

  Vegetables, Age, Earth

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• When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Believe, Doubt

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

  King Hussein I

  Justice, Way, Violence

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• The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

  Ernst Mach

  Struggle, Men, Average

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• The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

  Michel de Certeau

  Practice, Cities, Oblivion

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Experience, Safe

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• Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

  David Mixner

  Home, Nursing, People

  "Millions of Lives Will Be Changed By Home Health Care Cuts" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

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• I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Needs, Enough, Sanguine

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• Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Blood, Development, Firsts

  "Lee Kuan Yew: Race, culture and genes". Artiicle by Michael D. Barr. Journal of Contemporary Asia 29(2):145-67, www.researchgate.net. January 1999.

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• Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Everyday, United States, Missionary

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Revolution in World Missions”, Gfa Books

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• Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.

  Mark McCormack

  Inspirational, Thinking, Years

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• Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of the world’s population. Already there are many who prefer this crowded life, but there are others who do not, and these will gradually be eliminated. Life in the crowded conditions of cities has many unattractive features, but in the long run these may be overcome, not so much by altering them, but simply by changing the human race into liking them.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Running, Men, Civilization

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• Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Healing, Color, Purple

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