"The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance."
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"In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance."
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"It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful."
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"People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances."
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"Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are."
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"No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are."
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"I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance."
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"Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances."
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"Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances."
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"Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure."
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"I've always been open to doing reality again. Just under certain circumstances."
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"I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live."
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"Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances."
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"Everything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and what options you're willing to undertake, and that determines what you ought to be doing."
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"I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances."
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"It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed."
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"The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances."
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"Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters."
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"Don’t let less-than-perfect circumstances keep you from trusting God."
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"The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change."
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