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“A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.”

Way Wells Long Enough Would Be Faces Values Attitude Conditions Planets Consequence Environmental Inevitable Permanent Doom Enough Time Wrong Attitude

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.”

Long Age Artist Cases Conditions Aging Old Age Permanent Excitement Explanation Stimulation

Book:A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

“How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.”

Thinking Hard Today Conditions Future Projects Oneself Permanent

Book:My Days

Source: My Days

“Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.”

“Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are concentrated, others die or change their location. Thus new social problems are created: professional or regional unemployment, redeployment and mobility of persons, permanent adaptation of workers and disparity of conditions in the different branches of industry.”

“I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.”

Humans Ends Worry Conditions Dog Becoming Lonely Separation Permanent My Dog

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.”

Mean Ideas Real Form Values Conditions Transformation Institutions Russia Substance Permanent Proven Superficial Betterment

Book:My Disillusionment in Russia

Source: My Disillusionment in Russia

“There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Names Emotion Mystery Conditions Ought Permanent Human Condition Kitsch

Author:Roger Scruton

“I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.”

Way Humans May Mean Games Easy Difficult Loss Steps Clear Trouble Conditions Approach Logic Embrace Bounds Profit Permanent Abandon New Approach

Author:Warren Buffett

“There is something about permanent military occupation which seems to confine a man's scope and limit his opportunities; and after he has had a few years under the circumscribed conditions of official routine, he generally find himself wholly out of touch with civil occupation.”

Men Years Seems Opportunity Conditions Military Limits Permanent Officials Occupation Routine Scope

Author:John Monash