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"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
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"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
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"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
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"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
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"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
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"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?"
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"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
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"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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"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."
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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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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
Nothing
"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."
Innocence
"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."
Memory
"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
Forgiveness
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
Circumstance
"The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare."
Emotional
"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."
Anger
"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."
Time
"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."
Imprisonment
"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."
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