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"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."
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"If one does not interfere in the obtained worldly life, then worldly life will run straight forward & smoothly. But one keeps interfering in the obtained worldly life. From the moment he wakes up, he interferes. If there is no interference in the unfolding circumstances one has obtained, then God's control will prevail, but by interfering one takes over the control himself."
"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."
"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man."
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
"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."
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
"When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years."
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"As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."
"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become."
"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
"All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts."
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