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Frequently, the extraordinary man is only the ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances.
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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.
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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
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I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.
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I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
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I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
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If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.
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In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
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