#condition

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition. ↗

— John Boehner

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I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital. ↗

— Donald Evans

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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production. ↗

— Earl Browder

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When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

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The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food. ↗

— Mark Hyman

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