#conditions

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. ↗

— Wietse Venema

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes. ↗

— Jay Inslee

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The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. ↗

— James Lane Allen

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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development. ↗

— Kofi Annan

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Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. ↗

— Iris Chang

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