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“Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.”

Ifs Men Mind Humans God Waiting Human Beings Conditions Asking Virtuous

Author:Edward John Carnell

“Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.”

Care Nations Waiting Conditions Citizens Majors West Average British Health Care Britain Surgery Complaints Lowest Fractions Inconvenience Health System Overall Health

Book:The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

“When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.”

Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift

“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”

Knows Writing Wells Said Ends Play Waiting Conditions Normal Summer Studios Producers Exceptional End Of Summer

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.”

Men Death Turns Waiting Numbers Fate Imagine Conditions Sight Fellows Chains Each Day Without Hope

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.”

Needs Action Waiting Perfect Conditions Habit

Author:David J. Schwartz

“It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.”

Waiting Conditions Revolution Insurrection

Book:Guerrilla Warfare

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.”

Years Play Winning Waiting Conditions Ten Titles Championship

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned - to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it. I can wait without a twinge of impatience. I can see a setback without being shaken, knowing that it is only temporary.”

Men I Can Games Waiting Knowing Study Conditions Position Judgment Sticks Temporary I Have Learned Impatience Setback

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore