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Quotes About Conditions

No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment, of education, of acquired habits and of heredity; moulding men as they are and will for ever be.
~ Abraham Lincoln
As with many episodes from this war, it is hard for us to see the attack on September 26, 1915, as anything other than a blatant, needless massacre initiated by generals with a near-criminal disregard for the conditions their men faced.
~ Adam Hochschild
It is a mystery to me," he told me, "why we have quantum mechanics when there is only one state of the universe." In other words, why should there be probabilities of alternative conditions of our universes when we inhabit only one condition? And do those other potential conditions actually exist in other universes somewhere?
~ Alan Lightman
England being England, weather is changeable.
~ Derek Smith
I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.
~ Derren Victor Brown
The only reason why we are always having the doctrine of original sin instilled into us, in one form or another, is that the artificial conditions of the super-tribe keep on working against our biological altruism, and it needs all the help it can get.
~ Desmond Morris
El retroceso que sufrirá América Latina en sus condiciones de desarrollo, a situaciones existentes en décadas anteriores, es muy preocupante.
~ Detlef Nolte
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
~ Dick Gregory
discipleship can tolerate no conditions which might come between Jesus and our obedience to him.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on...
~ Donald Barthelme
As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.
~ Donald Evans
It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.
~ John C. Maxwell
Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.
~ Theodor Herzl
You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.
~ Ken Robinson
When you love without conditions, you the human and you the God, align with the spirit of life moving through you.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
~ Nikola Tesla
For Helen Keller, it was not visual perception that sustained the meaning-making dog-DOG relation. Yet she and I, each in our way, can both satisfy the conditions for DOG-possession according to the present [rationalist] account of those conditions.
~ Jerry Fodor
The workers' shifts last ten hours or longer, during which some walk more than fifteen miles on concrete floors, stooping, squatting, reaching, and climbing stairs as they scan, sort, and box merchandise.
~ Jessica Bruder
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~ Erich Fromm
Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner.
~ Erich Fromm
The limits of the growth of individuation and self are set partly by individual conditions, but essentially by social conditions
~ Erich Fromm
Exploitation was not personal any more, but it had become anonymous, as it were. It was the law of the market that condemned a man to work for starvation wages, rather than the intention or greed of any one individual. Nobody was responsible or guilty, nobody could change conditions either. One was dealing with the iron laws of society, or so it seemed.
~ Erich Fromm
a dificuldade da tarefa não deve ser razão para que nos abstenhamos de tentar conhecer-lhe os óbices, assim como as condições de sua realização
~ Erich Fromm
Among primitives, and wherever the conditions are primitive, the conflict between individual consciousness and the collective tendencies of the unconscious is resolved in favor of the collective and at the cost of the individual.
~ Erich Neumann