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• The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

  Stu Jackson

  Sea, Messages, Objects

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• It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

  Hosea Ballou

  Men, Judging, Mind

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• It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

  Robert Southey

  Country, Men, Mind

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• As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth.

  Claude Bernard

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they are really vibrating- the energy they are emanating will attract their circumstances.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Attitude, Work, People

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2006). “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream”, p.84, Macmillan

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• The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After there is peace and order throughout the country, they will still engage in sabotage and create disturbances in various ways and will try every day and every minute to stage a comeback. This is inevitable, beyond all doubt, and under no circumstances must we relax our vigilance.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Lying, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Power, Use, Administration

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• Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Thinking, Next Steps, Should

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• The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

  Hugh Prather

  Mistake, Heart, Practice

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• True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Rivers, Joy

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  God, Christian, Mean

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1996). “Being a Child of God: Your Guide for the Adventure”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

  Anne Ortlund

  Success, Encouragement, Bad Day

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• It is possible, I supposed, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.

  Eric Holder

  Military, Law, President

  "Holder: Obama could order lethal force in U.S." by Josh Gerstein, www.politico.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.

  Albert J. Nock

  Self, Sake, Firsts

  "The Criminality of the State". "The American Mercury" Magazine, March 1939.

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• Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Promise, Suffering

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• Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Kings, Order

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.109

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• Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Light, Achievement, Society

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• And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that there should [only] be organization capable of providing food and shelter for all and organization to effect its proper distribution.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Science, Organization, Goes On

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• The only thing I took advantage of at Extreme Rules was an opportunity to cash in my Money in the Bank contract, which I did successfully, well within the rules. You know, Jeff knows this, you know this, the fans know this: nowhere on that contract does it say, under any circumstances, 'Do not cash in on Jeff Hardy.'

  CM Punk

  Opportunity, Wwe, Fans

  "WWF SmackDown!". Sport, June 19, 2009.

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• In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal health circumstances. The time will come when, whatever illness you may have, for your body type and health history, there will 'be an app for that' to keep you on your best path to wellness.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Best Practices, Long, Support

  "Health Information Technology: Paving the Way to Improved Patient Care" by Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Followers, Tao, Flexible

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• One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.

  Epeli Hau'ofa

  Religious, Bombarded By, Political

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• Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.

  Bell Hooks

  White, Diversity, Choices

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.55, Routledge

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• Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

  Howard Stern

  Heart, Medicine, Sick

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• It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."

  Patti LaBelle

  Faith, Sweet, Aunt

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