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"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."
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"Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances."

"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."

"Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances."

"In the same circumstances, I know that I would do the same thing again."

"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."

"Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around."

"I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research."

"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."

"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."

"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."
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"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."

"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems."

"It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever."

"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."

"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may."
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