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Mortality defines the human condition. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
Everyone needs help. That's the human condition. -- Max Allan Collins
Cartoons are windows into the human condition, -- Doug Marlette
Hope is what makes the human condition liveable -- Arthur Kleinman
A digital frontier to reshape the human condition. -- Kevin Flynn
Human beings are interested in the human condition. -- William Boyd
Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition -- Wally Olins
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. -- Michel de Montaigne
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition. -- Hilary Mantel
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. -- Hannah Arendt
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition. -- Howard Schultz
Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it. -- Gary Hopkins
Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives. -- Immortal Technique
Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition -- Amby Burfoot
Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition. -- Dov Davidoff
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. -- Charles Stross
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. -- Arthur Koestler
Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition. -- Astro Teller
I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff. -- Drea De Matteo
I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy. -- Hector Elizondo
We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition. -- Frank Moore Cross
Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition. -- John P. Kotter
The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way. -- Gregory Hines
Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition? -- Niels Diffrient
Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition. -- Walker Percy
Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition -- Paulo Coelho
We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving. -- Nick Clooney
Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition. -- John Daishin Buksbazen
Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition. -- Millard Sheets
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition, -- Sharon Gless
The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity. -- Mark Vernon
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art. -- Tucker Max
In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition. -- William A. Dembski
I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition. -- Sharon Gless
If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean. -- Eileen Brennan
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition. -- Maya Angelou
A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition. -- Emmylou Harris
It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium. -- Tim Daly
I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky. -- Mandy Patinkin
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. -- Werner Herzog
What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition. -- Asia Argento
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. -- Milan Kundera
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. -- Mignon McLaughlin
It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply. -- Vivian Gornick
We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition. -- Frantz Fanon
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. -- J. H. Wyman
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition. -- Bill Gates
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. -- Bill Gates
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] -- Gary Shteyngart
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening. -- Jacki Weaver
the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith -- Ernest Becker
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. -- Hugh Laurie
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. -- Hugh Laurie
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. -- William Shatner
I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition. -- Rick Springfield
I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves. -- Ridley Scott
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions. -- Paulo Coelho
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. -- Bruce Schneier
Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder. -- Ernest Hemingway
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. -- Nicolas Cage
You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition. -- Dallas Willard
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. -- Mary Ellen Mark
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. -- Janet Fitch
The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition. -- Blaise Pascal
I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. -- Douglas Coupland
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. -- Octavio Paz
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. -- Albert Ellis
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get. -- Miguel Syjuco
People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition. -- Allan Dare Pearce
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. -- Voltaire
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. -- Albert Camus
I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition. -- Forest Whitaker
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition. -- Jodi Picoult
As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats. -- Jack Kelly
Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition. -- Donald Fehr
I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition. -- Carol Bartz
I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition. -- Jim Davis
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition. -- Dan Simmons
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people. -- Eli Broad
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. -- Nicole Kidman
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. -- Hugh Hardy
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition. -- Nicholas Meyer
I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it. -- Sasha Grey
Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. -- Jason Isaacs
Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter. -- Lenny Bruce
You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one. -- Janis Ian
Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior. -- Tim Robbins
I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition. -- Norman Lear
Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude. -- Adrienne Rich
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. -- E. O. Wilson
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. -- George Soros
The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war. -- George Friedman
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. -- Brian S. Wesbury
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. -- Brian S. Wesbury
The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though. -- Robert Dessaix
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What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition. -- Glen Duncan
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition. -- Dale T. Mortensen
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology. -- Nick Offerman
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition. -- Colin Farrell
I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky. -- Kim Cattrall
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition. -- Philip Zimbardo
Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them. -- Jerry Lewis
I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition. -- Natasha Lyonne
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past. -- Morris West
I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body. -- Junot Diaz
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. -- Alan Moore
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller. -- William Trevor
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition. -- Mohammed Arkoun
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition. -- Baz Luhrmann
A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious. -- R.N. Prasher
For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper. -- Elayne Boosler
The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it. -- Rupert Everett

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