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“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.”

Ifs Looks Mean Helping Would Be Eye Poverty Conditions Bears Quiet Casts His Eyes Look Up Estates

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.”

Might Family Conditions Particular Casts Insult Acceptable Cursing Signifying Aspersion

Book:All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Source: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.”

Play Stories Running Universe Interesting Seeing Conditions Stage Creating Casts Tiny Experiments Laboratory Theatrical Imposing

Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.”

People Men Real Faces Form Order Lost Strong Taken Trouble Conditions Kings Capacity Casts Islands Tempest Resemblance Real Knowledge

Book:Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

“I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as anti-discrimination laws and hate crimes laws, that will not provide relief from the life-shortening conditions trans populations are facing. Winning legal equality - getting the law to cast us as victims of discrimination who the state will protect - will not support our survival.”

“To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'”

Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader

“The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.”

Feels Soul Helping Spiritual Life Is Meditation Conditions Divine Color Materials Depends Paint Casts Selfishness Wicked Spiritual Life Fragrance Enmity Divine Nature

Book:Meditation and Its Methods

Source: Meditation and Its Methods

“I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.”

Source: Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects