Open Set Condition

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

“If you can’t smile, don’t open a store.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)

“Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)