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• The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership.... a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures.

  J. William Fulbright

  Kings, Warrior, Compassion

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• I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Believe, Funny Things, Laughing

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• Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection.

  Jo-Ann Mapson

  Voice, Razors, Wonderful

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• The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Affluence, Favour, Obscurity

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.142, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be. I'm able to step into these other parts of myself. I feel like, as long as I keep doing that in my career, and I keep tapping into different parts of the human condition, that's all I ask for.

  Rose McIver

  Girl, Character, Careers

  "Rose McIver Talks BRIGHTEST STAR, Acting in All Mediums, Working on MASTERS OF SEX, ONCE UPON A TIME, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 2, 2014.

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• There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

  Roger Scruton

  Names, Kitsch, Emotion

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• I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that.

  Simon Critchley

  Boredom, Anxiety, Phrases

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• There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

  Samuel Johnson

  People, Wish, Should

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 73 (March 1781)

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• The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.

  Mark Vernon

  Creativity, Mean, Acceptance

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• Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because that’s almost a human need, that water be a positive force.

  Roni Horn

  Water, Darkness, Humanity

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• I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Reality, Names

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely fragile organism. To celebrate that, I think, is a noble thing to do.

  Jim Dine

  Thinking, Miracle, Noble

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• Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know.

  Alton Tobey

  Art, Brotherhood, Lenses

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• Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Lessons, Damage, Firsts

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• Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Rivalry, Disposition

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition

  Amby Burfoot

  Humans, Conditions, One Time

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.18, Rodale

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• The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Able, Dimensions

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• The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , myself included, disliked the term because we did not think we were conservative, neo or paleo. (I voted for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey and worked in the latter's presidential campaign.) It would have been better if we had been called policy skeptics; that is, people who thought it was hard, though not impossible, to make useful and important changes in public policy.

  James Q. Wilson

  Thinking, Views, People

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• Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

  Lenny Bruce

  Laughter, Pain, Struggle

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Painful, Wells

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.6

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• What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.

  Thomas Sowell

  Wise, People, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2010). “Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays”, p.337, Basic Books

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• The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

  Gary Zukav

  Perfect, Secret, Doe

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 27, 2016

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• If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

  Paul Valery

  Order, Disorder, Ifs

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• Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

  Bruce Sterling

  Civilization, Would Be, Good Times

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• I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.

  Bruce Sterling

  Mean, Mutation, Painful

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