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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences. ↗

— Peter Singer

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He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. ↗

— James Stockdale

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I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup. ↗

— Hilary Swank

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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. ↗

— Amy Tan

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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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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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We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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