#circumstances

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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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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When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

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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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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away. ↗

— George Packer

#compromise #ideology #principles #values #ideology

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#circumstances #dance #everything #right

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. ↗

— James Lane Allen

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These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

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