#circumstances

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

— Donald Creighton

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We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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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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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. ↗

— Denzel Washington

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There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

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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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In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs. ↗

— Dario Fo

#affairs #american #circumstances #current #current state

Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently because your kid's in the world now. When it's just you, whatever happens happens but now you pay more attention to political things. You pay more attention to things because your daughter or your son has to deal with these circumstances. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

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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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