"You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad."
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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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"The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances."
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"Circumstances make man, not man circumstances."
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"Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best."
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"But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act."
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"Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances."
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"It is wise to turn circumstances to good account."
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"I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn."
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"I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow."
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"No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms."
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"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
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"Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune."
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"When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one."
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"Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself."
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"I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances."
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"For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them."
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"Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center."
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"I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable."
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"How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live."
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