human condition
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“I am afraid to own a Body— / I am afraid to own a Soul— / Profound—precarious Property— / Possession, not optional—” There it is, captured in four lines by Emily Dickinson, the human condition.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
Although the EAE model does not replicate every feature of MS, its similarities to the human condition make it a powerful tool for studying neurodegeneration and testing new therapeutic approaches.
From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026
The Spanish singer's fourth album is an exhilarating - and profoundly moving - exploration of the human condition, that asks why the earthly and the holy have to be so far apart.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025
It’s not necessarily the human condition, I would hope, but a remediable innumeracy which results in this unfortunate tendency.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
