#circumstance

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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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character. ↗

— Viola Davis

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The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing. ↗

— William Falconer

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If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it. ↗

— Jon Brion

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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that. ↗

— Anita Brookner

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We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. ↗

— Terry Brooks

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Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

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