Condition Quotes
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I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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As woman’s womb had symbolically yielded to the forceps, so nature’s womb harbored secrets that through technology could be wrested from her grasp for use in the improvement of the human condition
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Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
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Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
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Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
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Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
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Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as such, but at most only in so far as they affect particular personalities. They require the dramatic element to evoke their interest. With many men, on the contrary, though this element of course enhances interest, it is not the indispensable condition of interest.
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Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.
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Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.
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The first condition is that the referee didn't see or punish what we will eventually talk about,
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Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
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Asperger's doesn't define me. It's a condition that I have to live with and work through, but I feel more relaxed about myself. People will have a greater understanding of who I am and why I do the things I do.
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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
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There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.
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Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
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A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.
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When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
