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"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
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"When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
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"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
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"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
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"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
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"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
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"How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all."
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"Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him."
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"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
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"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."
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"He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation."
Character
"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."
Comedy
"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."
Ability
"Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence."
Silence
"The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part."
Actor
"Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
Time
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
Time
"I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it."
Food
"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
Circumstance
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