#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 think you can tell the human condition better through comedy. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#comedy #condition #human #human condition #i

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one. ↗

— Janis Ian

#down #get #human #human condition #i

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#american #american literature #baseball #biographies #condition

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#best #best time #condition #fortunes #gambling

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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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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