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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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"I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry."
"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."
"When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years."
"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
"I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances."
"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
"I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances."
"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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"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."
"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."
"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."
"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
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