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A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition. – Boutros Boutros-Ghali
It is the supreme tragedy of the human condition that we are so quick to crush the beauty from the butterflies in our mist. – Loren D. Estleman
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life. – Thomas Mann
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. – George Santayana
To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – Marilyn vos Savant
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. – Erich Fromm
...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition... – Amelia Barr
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. – Unknown
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. – Unknown
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. – George Bernard Shaw
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. – Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation. – M.K. Ataturk
Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind. – Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. – Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. – Voltaire
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. – Dr. Dale E. Turner
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. – Benjamin Cardozo
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – H Hahn Blavatsky
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. – Albert Camus
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. – Milton Friedman

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