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“The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.”

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Author:Sarah J. Buckley

“The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.”

World Pain Suffering Growth Space Pleasure Conditions This World Buddhism Birth Decay Spinning Pain And Pleasure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible.”

“Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”

Language Situation Blood Conditions Birth Involved Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:Conor Cruise O'Brien

“When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.”

“The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.”

Giving Conditions Birth

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.”

Thinking Way Persons States Age Reading Half Conditions Ignorance Willing Birth Enlightenment Increase Extraordinary Former Facility Resignation Diffusion

Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

“Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.”

Stories Easy Cities Violence Conditions Birth Involved Responsible Thanks Neglect Cracks Inner City Easy Money

Author:Questlove

“Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.”

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Author:Ivan Illich

“Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.”

Consciousness Conditions Personality Birth Becoming Activity Impact Aging Mood Confusion Craving Clinging Sensory

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Suffering always prompts heart-wrenching questions: if God is good, why would He allow this pain in my life? Is God truly sovereign over accidents and birth anomalies, or does the devil set the world's agenda? How do I counsel people who are despairing of their condition?”

People Ifs World Heart Doe Pain Life Is Suffering Conditions Birth Devil Accidents Agendas Sovereign Prompts Anomalies Heart Wrenching

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.”

America Conditions Birth Determine Outcomes

Author:Paul Ryan