#circumstance

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her. ↗

— Richard Carlson

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I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

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History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. ↗

— Donald Creighton

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion. ↗

— George Eads

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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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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. ↗

— Denzel Washington

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I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so. ↗

— Bram Fischer

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