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"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination." »Edmund Burke
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"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition." »John Owen
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"America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America" »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy." »Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
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"The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes." »Dugald Stewart
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"Hope is necessary in every condition." »Samuel Johnson
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"The first condition of immortality is death." »Stanislaw Lec
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"That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing." »Pliny the Younger
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"The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." »John Philpot Curran
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"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor." »Arnold Toynbee
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." »Malcolm X
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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone." »Octavio Paz
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"To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career." »George Santayana
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"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." »Robert Anson Heinlein
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire
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"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." »Bishop Creighton
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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant
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"Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want." »Janet Fitch, "White Oleander"
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"Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind." »Sir Richard Francis Burton
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"History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom." »Milton Friedman
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"It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant
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"Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." »Unknown
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"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self." »French Proverb
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"Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." »Unknown
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"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing." »Aristotle
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"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool." »Albert Camus
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