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• Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

  Martin Luther King Jr

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  Tags in Overlook, Circumstance

• One must put things in perspective – I’ve been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Topics in Country

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• We’re always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances – the idea being that you don’t really know who you are until you’ve been tested or suffered in some way.

  Erich Hoeber

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  Tags in People, Difficult, Circumstance, Idea

• Traveling out here was uncalled for. Try not to patronize us next time and tell us it’s a home game. But those were the circumstances and we lost.

  Aaron Brooks

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  Tags in Traveling, Game, Circumstance

• We should be inspired by people… who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

  Rachel Corrie

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• It’s continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you’ve got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don’t think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

  Rachael Domenica Ray

  Topics in Work

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• When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions

  Joseph Addison

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• I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

  Nicholas Sparks

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• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  Samuel Lover

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  Tags in Rules, Circumstance

• Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Tags in Advantage, Remain, Person, Circumstance

• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Tags in Defects, Change, Character, Circumstance

• I was born in very sorry circumstances.

  Norman Wisdom

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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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happiness, Living, Difficult, Circumstance

• We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Information, Political, Interests, Easy, Perhaps, Circumstance

• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Freedom, Creature, Agent, Circumstance

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  B. F. Skinner

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• Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

  Booker T. Washington

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Miscellaneous, Circumstance

• There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

  Charles Babbage

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  Tags in Philosopher, Calmness, Severe, Circumstance

• This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.

  Jack Abramoff

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  Tags in Concerns, Tribal, Circumstance

• There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

  Floyd Abrams

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  Tags in Interest, Circumstance