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Circumstance Quotes
"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit."
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"I am I plus my circumstances."
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"I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances."
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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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"Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree."
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
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"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
12
"I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make."
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"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
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"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
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"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
11
"I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance."
10
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
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"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
10
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
10
"They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable."
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"I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me."
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"I was born in very sorry circumstances."
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"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
10
"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."
10
"Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect."
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"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
10
"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others."
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"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."
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"In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared."
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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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"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
8
"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he."
8
"The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it."
8
"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
8
"When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years."
8
"Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her."
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"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."
8
"It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job."
8
"Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion."
8
"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
8
"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."
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"Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts."
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"So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others."
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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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"McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance."
7
"I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances."
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"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
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"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
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"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."
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"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
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"The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them."
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"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
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"I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry."
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