Conditions Quotes - Page 40

• The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.

  Craig Clevenger

  Talking, Knowing, Bored

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• The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Religious, Loss, Men

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• Reaching out to rescue one another under ANY condition is an eternal measure of love.

  Ronald A. Rasband

  Reaching, Rescue, Reach Out

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• Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Reading, Political, Soul

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.28, Regnery Publishing

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• Every organ, gland and cell in the body is affected by the condition of the colon.

  Norman W. Walker

  Cells, Body, Glands

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• Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Want, Human Condition, Angst

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.208, Macmillan

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• Ben and I built Ben & Jerry’s on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and environment If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It’s a process of innovation If we were going to have a business we were going to have one that was consistent with our values We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Ideas

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• In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. Technologized Desire is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories. Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of accelerating technology.

  Arthur Kroker

  Memories, Army, Cutting

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• Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are far removed from the human condition and from all human hope. For a moment, in that moment, flowers are simply beautiful.

  Sharman Apt Russell

  Beautiful, Flower, Moments

  Sharman Apt Russell (2002). “Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers”, p.2, Basic Books

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• Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.

  Steve Farrar

  Heart, Exercise, Boys

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• Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.

  Frederic Morton

  Names, House, Balance

  Frederic Morton (2014). “The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait”, p.18, Diversion Books

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• All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated.

  Boies Penrose

  May, Tests, Economic

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• The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.

  Shirley Brice Heath

  People, Mentor, Important

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• Doctors are directly responsible for hooking millions of people on prescription drugs. They are also indirectly responsible for the plight of millions more who turn to illegal drugs because they were taught at an early age that drugs can cure anything - including psychological and emotional conditions - that ails them.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Emotional, Doctors, People

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• This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse.

  Julian Simon

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.

  Benjamin De Hoyos

  Righteous Living, Soul, States

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• It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

  Tim Daly

  Jobs, Dark, Light

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution
  A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it
  And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built
  And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods
  And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are
  As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth

  Malcolm X

  Color, Long, People

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• Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Mean, Ideas

  "Paulo Coelho: 'I had an enormous amount of fun being a hippy" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2014.

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• Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

  Alfie Kohn

  People, Accomplishment, Healthy

  Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.

  Christian D. Larson

  Thinking, Imagination, Desire

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.285, The Floating Press

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• Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

  Bell Hooks

  Feminism, Majority, Oppression

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.18, Routledge

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• When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inner Peace, Mind, Causes

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love (Anniv)”, p.181, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into full ralization of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Able, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2014). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Creating, Integration

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