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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

“The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.”

Firsts Long Dream Practice Magic Conditions Awareness Buddhism Higher Thick Stopping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.”

Firsts Would Be Asks Principles Economy Conditions Findings Priorities Ecology

Author:David Suzuki

“I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Our first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.”

People Firsts School Purpose Next Conditions Foundation Democratic Missions Hospitals Republic Continents Improving Congo African Continent Democratic Republic Living Conditions

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.”

Firsts Humans Conditions Goodness Reverence

Author:George Eliot

“If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.”

Ifs Want Firsts Mean Feelings Action Change Conditions Everyday Life Changing Everyday Life Thoughts And Feelings

Book:Social Responsibility

Source: Social Responsibility

“TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.”

Firsts Has Beens States Father Natural Conditions Source Authority Ancient Obvious Bored Fancy Latin Hymns Ennui Tedium

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.”

Ifs Firsts Would Be Conditions Patient Arrangements Affliction Clauses

Author:Alfred Adler

“For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.”

People World Firsts Humans Enough Poverty Technology Economic Conditions Development Disease Capable First Time Currents Human Condition Integration Illiteracy Economic Integration

Author:Clare Short

“And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?”

Should Firsts Artist Conditions Bears Agree Sake Burning Acknowledge Flames Bows

Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.”

Firsts Humans Kind Whole Use Action Individual Practice Society Conditions Habit Activity Resources Instance Perceive Affected Establishment Adjustment Human Activity

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.”

Firsts Hard Age Trouble Conditions Information Thousand Accounts Financial Currents Investors Accurate Reserves Veils Monetary Fleeing Accurate Information

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!”

Firsts Seems Might Law Science House Nature Natural Conditions Scene Universal Injustice Slaughter

Book:Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough

Source: Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough

“One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.”

Want Firsts Heart Soul Spiritual Evil Silence Conditions Lays Temptation Remedy Suggestions Adviser

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.”

Firsts Shows Women Conditions Possibility Enlightenment First Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The First thing to understand about the universe is that no condition is "good" or "bad." It just is. So stop making value judgments. The second thing to know is that all conditions are temporary. Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.”

Knows Way Inspirational Firsts Reality Values Universe Religious Conditions Depends Judgment Remains Temporary Things Change Static Conversations With God

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.”