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"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
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"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."

"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."

"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man."

"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."

"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."

"Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts."

"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."

"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

"We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain."
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"All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts."

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities."

"Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

"If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are."

"No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it."

"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results."
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