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• I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

  Jim Davis

  Cat, Convincing, Wanted

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• Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

  Gerry Spence

  Honesty, Passion, Fighting

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• The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn.

  Jules Henry

  Men, Self, Experience

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• One of the things I admire so much about Atom Egoyan is that again and again he makes movies about the human condition, who we are, what we want, how we communicate to one another and this is also an exploration of a long-term relationship and what happens in it. There's human sexuality and all those kinds of things, so that helps - it all helps. You realise that I'm not a Playboy bunny.

  Julianne Moore

  Long, Atoms, Bunnies

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

  Ridley Scott

  World, Want, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

  John Simon

  Names, Evil, Slim

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• Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

  Jason Isaacs

  Acting, Narcissistic, Hunger

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Understanding, Desire

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Country, Real, Differences

  Jeremy Griffith (2016). “Freedom: The End of the Human Condition”, p.638, WTM Publishing and Communications

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• We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things. So it made sense to me to reflect the human condition that not every action has an explanation. We act, and then later maybe come to an understanding about it, or maybe not.

  Alice Sebold

  People, Understanding, Desire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Expression, Insecurity, Enlightenment

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• God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

  Martin Laird

  Taken, Humanity, Bruises

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• The world has never known the freedom and liberty it did until the United States some 230 years ago - and if that light is extinguished, then it's over for the resolute world as well. There's nowhere else. That has been a tenet of American foreign policy from the beginning, the recognition of liberty and freedom as essential to the human condition as created by God.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Liberty, World, Recognition

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

  Glenn Hughes

  Song, Art, People

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• The different American experience of the 20th Century is crucial because the lesson of the century for Europe, which essentially is that the human condition is tragic, led it to have a build a welfare system and a set of laws and social arrangements that are more prophylactic than idealistic. It's not about building perfect futures; it's about preventing terrible pasts. I think that is something that Europeans in the second half of the 20th century knew in their bones and Americans never did, and it's one of the big differences between the two Western cultures.

  Tony Judt

  Past, Thinking, Perfect

  "Postwar". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2005.

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• America is far and away superior to every other place on earth, in terms of lifestyles, liberty, and freedom. In terms of the human condition, there's no place like it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Liberty, Earth

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Growing Up, Ego, Use

  Source: progressive.org

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• Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

  Harry Belafonte

  People, Culture, Vibrancy

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.

  Wole Soyinka

  Reading, Mean, Creativity

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Dimensions, Humans, Stills

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• I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things.

  Danielle Steel

  Jobs, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I guess I really enjoy movies that have to do with human conditions and maybe based a little bit more in reality, so I think I would say romance.

  Boti Bliss

  Thinking, Reality, Romance

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

  George Friedman

  War, Community, Tragedy

  George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.220, Anchor

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• Television production is so insane. There's so many moving parts and flying pieces and you're desperate to make it cohesive and artistic and have something to say about the human condition that feels like it has value to its existence.

  Bryan Fuller

  Moving, Flying, Insane

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doubt, Never Quit, Fiction

  Source: newrepublic.com

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