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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.


William Halsey


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New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.


Daniel Hannan


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It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.


Townsend Harris


#case #circumstances #england #first #gradually

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.


Gregory Harrison


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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.


Lafcadio Hearn


#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.


Herodotus


#circumstances #rule

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.


Napoleon Hill


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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.


James Hillman


#body #circumstances #elected #myth #necessity

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.


James Hillman


#body #choice #circumstances #curse #forgotten

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.


Horace


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