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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

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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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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

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It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. ↗

— Herodotus

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We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. ↗

— David Trimble

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And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan. ↗

— Frank Beddor

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