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"I am I plus my circumstances."
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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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"When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation."
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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."
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"Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to 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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"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."
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"I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so."
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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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"And I am also here to say that if something were to happen, we are prepared to respond swiftly, to respond effectively, and to respond strongly. That is our tradition as a country. And that is a tradition that we will uphold, regardless of any circumstance because this nation is one that is very, very strong and, indeed, extraordinarily resilient."
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"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
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"Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."
Living


"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
Wonder


"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."
Excellence


"Law is born from despair of human nature."
Nature


"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."
Life


"Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist."
Creativity


"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


"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."
Inspirational


"An idea is a putting truth in check-mate."
Truth


"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."
Values
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