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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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"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."

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

"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."

"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."

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

"A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm."

"In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid."

"Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts."

"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."
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"It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for."

"Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope."

"Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."

"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."
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