#circumstances

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. ↗

— Olympia Brown

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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

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In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances. ↗

— Fernando Flores

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We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

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Man is the creature of circumstances. ↗

— Robert Owen

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A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. ↗

— Hesketh Pearson

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It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Reid

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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. ↗

— C. P. Scott

#combination #fortuitous #happy

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. ↗

— B. F. Skinner

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