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• Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Commodity, Selling

  "Dictator lit: Castro's clunking Che memoir", www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

  Charles Nodier

  Years, Enemy, Age

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• He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

  James Howell

  Sleep, Names, Hypocrisy

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”

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• It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

  Robert Herrick

  Fighting, Crowns, Ends

  'The End'

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• The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

  Gregory Hines

  Way, Entertainment, Honest

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• As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

  Diane Keaton

  Feelings, Actresses, Emotion

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• Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

  Chevy Chase

  Home, People, Television

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• Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need Equality, and we kind of need it now. 'So why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you're still asking that question.

  Joss Whedon

  Strong, Writing, Character

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• Vows begin when hope dies.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Vow, Dies

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

  Sharon Gless

  Thinking, Understanding, Humans

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• The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

  Gene Kelly

  Light, Musical, Looks

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• The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.

  George Dzundza

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it.

  Rupert Everett

  Character, Opulence, Overwhelmed

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• Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning -- much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes business sense.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Morning, Intelligent, Greatness

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• Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Reputation, Outrun

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• People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, People, Inferiority

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.337

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• A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

  William Feather

  Home, House, Guests

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

  Euripides

  Soul, Depth, Levels

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• There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with experiment. In my view, the human condition would be greatly improved if such confrontations and willingness to reject hypotheses were a regular part of our social, political, economic, religious and cultural lives.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Views, Political

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• Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Believe, Expression, Order

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.15, AK Press

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• It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

  Tony Curtis

  Stars, Knitting, Track

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• People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

  Eileen Brennan

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Broadway, Hollywood actress Eileen Brennan dies", www.sfgate.com. August 1, 2013.

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• Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

  Tim Robbins

  Real, Heart, People

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• Habits form a second nature.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Habit, Form

  Philosophie Zoologique pt. 2, ch. 7 (1809)

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• The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  People, Obsession, Whole Life

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

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