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“We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.”

Knows Firsts Form Conditions Changed Internals Biology Primitive Organisms Obliged Simulate

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.”

Men Way Humans Stills States Shows Remember Evil Causes Conditions Subjects Changed Ordinary Accidents Threatened Recognizing Emperor Ordinary Man

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”

Men Want Earth Values Given Cities Conditions Fields Changed Comfort Ocean Labor Misery Raised Forests Ships Plenty Desert Covered Possessed Savages Elegance Barbarism Talismans

Author:John Ramsay McCulloch

“We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.”

Country Wisdom Hands Today Law Politics Nations Wealth Economy Conditions Changed Elements Rely Liberalism Republic Impossibility Rely Upon Bayonets Concentration Of Wealth

Author:James Madison

“Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.”

“When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.”

“The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.”

Men Humans Animal Race Existence Destiny Progress Conditions Changed Morality Authority Code Human Race Gaps Permanence Separating

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.”

Humans Use Earth Conditions Changed Capacity Human Life

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Conditions have changed, but we are still operating financially by the rules established during the Industrial Revolution-rules based on creating more material possessions. But our high standard of living has not led to a high quality of life-for us or for the planet.”

Stills Quality Conditions Changed Planets Materials Revolution Creating Standards Possession Quality Of Life Standards Of Living High Quality High Standards Industrial Revolution Material Possessions

Author:Joseph R. Dominguez

“The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.”

Should Reason Moments Seems Conditions Subjects Changed Demand Essentials Permit Revision Rafting

Book:Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v

Source: Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v

“I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.”

Knows Humans Mean Accepting Conditions Changed Painful Experiments Horrible Human Condition Disgusting Frightening Monstrous Mutation

Author:Bruce Sterling

“Putting together a really strong unifying team was an absolute condition. When that fell away, I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.”

Thinking Together Strong Felt Team Conditions Changed Absolutes Unifying

Author:Dominic Raab

“I have changed the focus of the work of my Commission so that we no longer concern ourselves with trivial details and concentrate on the key issues instead. By doing that, we met a large number of the legitimate demands made by the British people. The Commission really did do everything it could to create the conditions for a positive campaign.”

People Made Numbers Issues Focus Conditions Changed Keys Mets Demand Concern Details British Campaigns Large Numbers I Have Changed

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker