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• Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.

  Saul Bellow

  Brother, Father, Ambition

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• He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

  George MacDonald

  Prayer, Father, Heart

  George MacDonald (2016). “Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works”, p.172, VM eBooks

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• Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

  Simon Pegg

  Children, Decisions We Make, Details

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• Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

  Sarah Hall

  Solitude, Misunderstood

  Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

  B. F. Skinner

  Philosophy, Answers, May

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.120, Hackett Publishing

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• In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

  B. F. Skinner

  War, Believe, Men

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.221, Hackett Publishing

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• Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Self, People

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• To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can´t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren´t satisfied - before working some more.

  Mitch Albom

  Taken, Self Worth, Mirrors

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• [T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

  Jared Diamond

  People, Triumph, Inappropriate

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• I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Thinking, Black History

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.160, Frederick Douglass

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• I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Mind, Action

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• Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Beautiful, Art, Science

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• Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Gathering

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• Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

  Kent Nerburn

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Becoming One

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.55, New World Library

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• Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

  Amelia Barr

  Being Alone, Voice, Solitude

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.317, Library of Alexandria

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• Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Life, Happiness, People

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• Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

  John Dewey

  Change, Education, Memories

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.146, SIU Press

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• Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Higher, Fruitful Life

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• In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  William Styron

  Sad, Depression, Crush

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• Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

  Bob Geldof

  Depression, Thinking, Opposites

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• Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Women, Equality, Hymns

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.22

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• Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Equality, Rights

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Attitude, Children

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966".

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• Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Health, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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• Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you
  in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor
  to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its
  loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't
  catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?

  Judith Martin

  Summer, Cheer, Food

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