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"I am I plus my circumstances."
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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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"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
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"Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?"
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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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"There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe."
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"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
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"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
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"How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all."
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"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
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"Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition."
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"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
Wonder
"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."
Life
"We cannot put off living until we are ready."
Living
"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."
God
"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."
Death
"The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have."
Love
"The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."
Nature
"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."
Living
"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."
Being
"An idea is a putting truth in check-mate."
Truth
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