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"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
"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."
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
"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."
"Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team."
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
"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."
"I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so."
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"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."
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."
"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."
"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."
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