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"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
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"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man."
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Personal Development

"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
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Personal Development

"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
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"Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone."
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"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
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"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."
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"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
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"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
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"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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"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."
Gain


"When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters."
Want


"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."
Happiness


"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
Duty


"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
Habit


"An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual."
Character


"Trust should be the basis for all our moral training."
Trust


"Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example."
Success


"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
Leadership


"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself."
Boys
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