#stance

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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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use. ↗

— Helmut Lang

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The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. ↗

— Ugo Betti

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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

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Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her. ↗

— Richard Carlson

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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

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