Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable."
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Conditions
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Politician, Prime Minister
"You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules."
Michel Foucault
Philosopher, Social Theorist
"Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole."
Derren Brown
Illusionist
"I control the conditions so my testers become my testees."
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"Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living."
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"Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition."
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"I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute."
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"The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions."
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"The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer."
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"Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself."
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"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."
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"The lie is a condition of life."
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"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."
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"That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing."
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"Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."
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"The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition."
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"Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?"
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"External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility."
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"Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever."
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"Surely joy is the condition of life."
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"It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions."
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"It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life."
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"You are the knowing, not the condition that is known."
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"Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike."
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