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“We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.”

“It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.”

Enjoy Class Conditions Independent Crisis Prosperity Productions Permit Relative Capitalist Working Class Harbinger

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II

“An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.”

Way Humans Moments Conditions Poet Occasions Permit Human Condition Catalyst Haul Nuggets

Author:Diane Ackerman

“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”

Use Literature Conditions Theory Goes On Permit

Author:Andre Gide

“Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people look at some of the work that's been done by people who have been there. But that's not to say that we will not be very glad at the day that conditions permit the closure of Guantanamo and the trying of its inhabitants or for their release.”

People Writing Trying Looks Has Beens Sometimes Done Conditions Havens Glad Release Reports Permit Closure Guantanamo

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.”

Way Individual Class Conditions Behave Permit Capitalist Reproduction

Author:David Harvey

“We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.”

Way Want Giving Littles Art Helping Evil Lost Conditions Ought Disease Affair Contrary Grants Permit Passages Obstinate Tenacious

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“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

“True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.”