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• I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where millions of people live in inhuman conditions and many are literally dying of hunger. It is not possible to announce God the Father to these brothers and sisters without taking on the responsibility of building a more just society in the name of Christ.

  Pope John Paul II

  Brother, Father, Responsibility

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• The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.

  Chad Harbach

  Alive, Someday, Humans

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• It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Being Yourself, Believe, Negativity

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• It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Cures, Teach, Humans

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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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• Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.

  Mohammed Arkoun

  Writing, Commitment, Deep Understanding

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• I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

  Deana Carter

  Song, Life And Love, Thinking

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• Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

  Walker Percy

  Lying, Book, Humans

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays”, p.251, Open Road Media

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• One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

  Sybille Bedford

  Thinking, One Day, Rehearsal

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• Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.

  Hasdai ibn Shaprut

  Son, Fifteen, Slave

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• Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

  Guy Clark

  Mean, Trying, Guessing

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

  Mary Travers

  Concern, Folks, Humans

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• Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable

  Steven Erikson

  Ambition, Law, Humanity

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• Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

  Janet Fitch

  Loneliness, Tunnels, Soul

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Race, People

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• A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

  V. Vale

  Tattoo, Eye, Unique

  V. Vale, Andrea Juno (1989). “Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual”, V/Search

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• My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Hard Work, Independent

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Hurt, Growing Up, Moving Forward

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• I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.

  Rosie Thomas

  Running, Grief, Cutting

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press

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• Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Diversity, Bears

  Essais bk. 3, ch. 2 (1580)

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• Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Respect, Self, Personality

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Insanity, Disease, Alcoholics

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

  Judith Martin

  Humble, Humility, Quality

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• In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Stories, Intriguing, Mechanic

  Interview With Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

  Jerry Lewis

  Winning, Gambling, Losing

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