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"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man."
"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
"Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone."
"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
"In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances."
"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
"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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"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."
"Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist."
"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."
"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."
"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."
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