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• We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cutting, Clothes, Coats

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• The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, Successful

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• In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Law

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• Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Change, Taoism, Earth

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• Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Gratitude

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.209, WaterBrook

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• Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.103, WaterBrook

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• No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us, and that our eternal life is assured.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Wisdom

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.101, WaterBrook

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• The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God's in Christ Jesus for you."

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

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• It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Heart, Broken

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• Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

  Linda Dillow

  Happiness, Attitude, Contentment

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• Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

  Bill Vaughan

  Retirement, Healthy, Busy

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• I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

  Paul the Apostle

  Giving, Secret, Needs

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• At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fall, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America

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• [P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

  Thomas Malthus

  Food, Mean, Science

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• I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.

  Francois Arago

  Heart, Science, Animal

  François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.36

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• No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Parent, Matter

  "Closing the Gap: Sen. Marco Rubio on how more education, fewer broken families can change income inequality". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. February 13, 2014.

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• It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the director (who in a new work is always in dialogue with the playwright) an unlimited amount of questions.

  Gideon Glick

  Directors, Lucky, New Work

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.

  Boaz Lavie

  Real, The End Of The Day, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

  Confucius

  Men, Long, Doe

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• In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

  Jonathan Swift

  Adversity, Ease, Firsts

  'Verses on the Death of Dr Swift' (1731) l. 7

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• Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Atmosphere, Torches, Occupation

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• Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Education, Father, Men

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• As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.

  Ole Hallesby

  Morning, Prayer, Noon

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Italian, Men, Despair

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• A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Hands, May

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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