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"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance."
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"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."
"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
"When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation."
"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."
"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
"Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts."
"In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared."
"Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree."
"I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances."
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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
"The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application."
"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."
"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."
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