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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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"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."

"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."

"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."

"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."

"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."

"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."

"McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance."

"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."

"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time."
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