#circumstance

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. ↗

— George Eliot

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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

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Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which I think and feel, underlay that former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and will always circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#death

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances. ↗

— Ang Lee

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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. ↗

— Blaine Lee

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