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"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
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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."

"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."

"We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain."

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."

"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."

"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?"

"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."

"There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe."
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"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world."

"Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat."

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand."

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature."

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."

"No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man."
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