#circumstances

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ↗

— James Allen

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A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. ↗

— Lord Byron

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In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. ↗

— Catherine II

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

— Donald Creighton

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The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. ↗

— Marquis De Custine

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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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I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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