Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.
Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.
Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.
All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you. " Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.
God does not. . . give people positions or jobs or. . . good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves. . God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.
Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
To any mental state there corresponds a physical condition.
The right way to deal with healthcare reform is not to have a one-size-fits-all plan that's imposed on all the states, but recognizing the differences between different states' populations, states should be able to craft their own plans to get all their citizens insured, and to make sure that preexisting conditions are covered.
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his youth and many others which at that time could be enjoyed only by a small minority are now standard equipment of almost every household.
Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.
The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.
It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.
Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met. . . I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.
How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.
Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman.