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“So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.”

Thinking Might Economic Conditions Revolution Concerned Claims American Revolution

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.”

“Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.”

Humans Suffering Evil Conditions Concepts Claims Unity Thanks Life And Death Protest Rebellion Motivated Human Condition Metaphysical Incompleteness Wastefulness

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way.”

“Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim”

Meditation Conditions Claims Independent

Author:Shinzen Young

“Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.”

Men Years Ends God Three Nations Party Struggle Conditions Claims Expected Three Years

Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.”

Men World Real Suffering Humanity Strong Conditions Horror Men And Women Claims Forgotten Insane Miserable Helpless Legislature Outcast Asylums Massachusetts Desolate Unconcerned

Author:Dorothea Dix

“There is nothing more appalling than the wholesale way in which unthinking people plead to the Almighty the richest and most spiritual of His promises, and claim their immediate fulfillment, without themselves fulfilling one of the conditions either on which they are promised or can possibly be given.”

People Way Spiritual Given Prayer Conditions Promise Claims Fulfillment Almighty Fulfilling Wholesale

Author:William Henry Drummond

“...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.”

“Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.”