#stance

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody. ↗

— Karl Rove

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

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The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #explores #sense #smell #substances

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#been #broken #definitely #proved #repeated

But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#extra #extra money #financial #financial assistance #four

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance. ↗

— Joe Shuster

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I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#change #changes #circumstances #i #know

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

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