Open Set Condition

Famous quotes containing the words open, set and/or condition:

    “O polished perturbation! golden care!
    That keep’st the ports of slumber open wide
    To many a watchful night.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Were it good
    To set the exact wealth of all our states
    All at one cast? to set so rich a main
    On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
    It were not good.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.”
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)