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"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." »Thomas Paine
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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." »Carl Sagan
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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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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." »Albert Einstein
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"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven." »Woody Allen
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"Hope is necessary in every condition." »Samuel Johnson
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"That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing." »Pliny the Younger
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"The first condition of immortality is death." »Stanislaw Lec
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"The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." »John Philpot Curran
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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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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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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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"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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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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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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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant
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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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"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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"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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"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress." »Charles W. Eliot
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"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
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"The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach." »Sophocles
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"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
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." »Erich Fromm
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