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"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
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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."
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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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"It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first."
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"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others."
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"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."
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"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
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"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."
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"I was born in very sorry circumstances."
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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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"I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?"
Age
"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
Circumstance
"Art for art's sake, money for God's sake."
Art
"I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do."
Army
"And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust."
Age
"Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948."
Attitude
"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."
Books
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