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"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."
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"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."
"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he."
"What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful."
"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
"A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm."
"Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show."
"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."
"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
"In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid."
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"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."
"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions."
"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart."
"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation."
"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that."
"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."
"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."
"Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it."
"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."
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