"My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives."
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"When you get older, you have a much better sense of when it's time to really recognize that you're fortunate and that you should appreciate your circumstances."
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"He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances."
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"Circumstances beyond my individual control."
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"Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules."
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"It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse."
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"You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change."
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"Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself."
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"When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know"
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"One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did"
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"Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances."
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"Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered."
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"[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting."
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"All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated."
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"Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life"
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"Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now."
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"We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude."
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"If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre."
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"Circumstances are the seeds of literature."
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"To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need."
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