But while success and failure depend on conditions the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
I reflect back 35 years ago and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water and we have had some real successes.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies and in decision-making.
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
Education then beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.