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"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
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"Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect."
"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."
"Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances."
"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he."
"Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition."
"Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts."
"Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion."
"They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable."
"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
"Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?"
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"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
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