Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.
Crap talk; Noun. A condition where one's insecurities come spilling out of his mouth making him look like an unconfident idiot.
Confidence; Noun. A condition where one knows what he is good at no matter how much you try to convince him otherwise.
My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.
It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.
An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.
La culture, c'est un effort permanent de l'être pour échapper à sa vile condition de primate sous-civilisé.
Don’t predict the condition of the entire day by the state of the morning. You don’t judge a book by its cover. A cloudy morning is no guarantee for a rainy day!
Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.
We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species.
The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.
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Stop walking through the motions of a conditioned routine and start consciously taking action on your visualized intent.
But thats the beauty of the human condition; we're always able to see the spring on the other side of winter, so long as we're willing to try.
What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don't give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it's not easy.
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make pe...
The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy the...
I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.
