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"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."
"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man."
"Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days."
"The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it."
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"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
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