| "It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward." »Thomas Huxley |
| "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next" »Richard Feynman |
| "Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked." »Robert D. Sprecht |
| "Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think." »Hannah Arendt |
| "Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs." »James Allen |
| "Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions." »Mark Twain |
| "Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions." »George Santayana |
| "It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living." »Simone de Beauvoir |
| "If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men." »Russell P. Askue |
| "conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self." »Erich Fromm |
| "Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror." »Herb Brody |
| "Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing." »William Faulkner |
| "Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too." »Bill Vaughan |
| "Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit." »Dr. Robert Schuller |
| "Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." »Irving Kristol |
| "In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton |
| "If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning." »Carl R. Rogers |
| "There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life." »B. J. Gupta |
| "Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment." »Anne Besant |
| "If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation." »Eugene V. Debs |
| "If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you." »James T. Farrell |
| "When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises." »Franklin P. Adams |
| "When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too." »Bayard Rustin |
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