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"Celibacy is not hereditary." »Guy Goden
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"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children." »Sam Levenson
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"It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary." »Author Unknown
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"Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either." »Joseph Fischer
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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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"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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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." »Carl Sagan
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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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"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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"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." »Robert Anson Heinlein
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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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"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 absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one." »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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"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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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire
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"Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind." »Sir Richard Francis Burton
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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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"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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"History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom." »Milton Friedman
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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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