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"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."
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"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
"Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts."
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others."
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
"Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around."
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
"The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it."
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
"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."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
"The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
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