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Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

Anna Julia Cooper

Country, Sex, Race

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It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

Henri Poincare

Science, Differences, Finals

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There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Change, Two, Goal

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

Stephen Covey

Decision, Feelings, Personal Development

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.82, Mango Media Inc.

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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

Carl Honore

Sports, Kids, Parenting

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Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' implies randomness. Chaos in the technical sense is not random at all. It is completely determined, but it depends hugely, in strangely hard-to-predict ways, on tiny differences in initial conditions.

Richard Dawkins

Science, Differences, Way

Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.87, Random House

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The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences.

E. O. Wilson

Loss, Science, Intellectual

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One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.

William Kenneth Hartmann

Science, Sometimes, Physics

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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Oscar Wilde

Beautiful, Art, Appreciate

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Anger, Aggression, Response

Margaret J. Wheatley (2007). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time”, p.239, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

Ernest Hemingway

Wisdom, Winning, Ease

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Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).

Gunter Schabowski

Change, Country, Borders

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... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.

Warder Clyde Allee

Running, Animal, Men

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Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.

Margaret Chan

Cities, Population, Levels

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Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.

Chester Barnard

Successful, Organization, Abnormal

Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.

George Inness

Art, Ends, Fixed

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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

Ai Weiwei

Art, Fighting, Expression

"Artist Ai Weiwei: China crushes dissenting voices". www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2012.

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Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

Ai Weiwei

Art, Expression, Skills

"Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.

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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Ai Weiwei

Art, Thinking, Ideas

"Ai Weiwei 'Does Not Feel Powerful'". www.bbc.com. October 13, 2011.

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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

Ai Weiwei

Cities, Nightmare, Beijing

"Ai Weiwei on Beijing's Nightmare City". www.newsweek.com. August 28, 2011.

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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

Ai Weiwei

Use, Safe, Life Is

"Ai Weiwei: 'I Have to Speak for People Who Are Afraid'". Interview with Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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Impurities are constantly and imperceptibly passing from the body, through the pores, and if the surface of the skin is not kept in a healthy condition, the system is burdened with impure matter....and if the garments worn are not frequently cleansed...the pores of the skin absorb again the waste matter thrown off. The impurities of the body... are taken back into the blood, and forced upon the internal organs.

Ellen G. White

Taken, Blood, Healthy

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If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community.
'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end.

Michael Sandel

Good Life, Writing, Mean

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I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Rafael Sabatini

Poor, Knows

Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.229, DoctorZed Publishing

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Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Fritz Sauckel

Attitude, Political, Today

"Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, 1948.

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