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"I am I plus my circumstances."
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"Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances."
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"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he."
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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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"What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful."
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"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
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"The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it."
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"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
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"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."
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"Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show."
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"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
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"In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will."
Life


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


"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."
Living


"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."
Time


"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


"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


"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
Life


"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


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


"Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority."
Resentment
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