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I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances. ↗

— Carol Burnett

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In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances. ↗

— Fernando Flores

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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible. ↗

— Allan Massie

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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

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Man is the creature of circumstances. ↗

— Robert Owen

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You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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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. ↗

— Martha Washington

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The second you think a situation is hopeless, it suddenly loses all meaning. A situation is just a case, condition, or state of affairs. It only becomes hopeless when you need to define an explanation. ↗

— Benson Bruno

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Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. ↗

— James Lane Allen

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