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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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"We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic."
"Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him."
"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man."
"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
"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."
"Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone."
"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."
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"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."
"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."
"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."
"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."
"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."
"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."
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