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"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
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"The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them."

"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."

"Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show."

"Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances."

"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."

"Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days."
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"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."

"During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures."

"Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses."

"I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life."
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