#human condition

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

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The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. ↗

— William Shatner

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Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can. ↗

— Bob Geldof

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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ↗

— George Soros

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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

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Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. ↗

— Tom Clancy

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