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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."
"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
"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."
"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
"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."
"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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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."
"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
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