#human condition

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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I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff. ↗

— Drea De Matteo

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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics. ↗

— Kate Millett

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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

#absolute #absolute power #allows #belief #clear

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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It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are. ↗

— Tony Curtis

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