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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."
30
"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
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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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"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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"Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around."
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"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."
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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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"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
21
"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."
20
"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."
20
"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."
20
"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."
20
"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."
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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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"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
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"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
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"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
18
"McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance."
18
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
17
"They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable."
16
"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."
16
"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
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"In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared."
16
"Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion."
16
"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."
16
"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."
16
"Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts."
16
"I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance."
15
"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."
15
"I was born in very sorry circumstances."
15
"The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago."
14
"I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry."
14
"The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it."
14
"Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her."
14
"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."
14
"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."
14
"It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job."
14
"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?"
14
"What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful."
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"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he."
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"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
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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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"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."
13
"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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