#circumstance

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ↗

— Aristotle

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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

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I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance. ↗

— Sarah Ferguson

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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others. ↗

— Hans Blix

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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