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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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"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."
"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."
"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
"In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances."
"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
"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."
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"The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted."
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"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."
"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged."
"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."
"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
"I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject."
"In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward."
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