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• No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.

  Rosemary Altea

  Overcoming, Matter, Lasts

  Rosemary Altea (2008). “A Matter of Life and Death: Remarkable True Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.203, Penguin

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• Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it may be said to have been uttered, can make that true which is radically false. If an innocent child, unconscious of good or evil, irresponsible to God and man, incapable of thought or action, is not already, in accordance with Christian theology, a member of Christ, then no vicarious promise or priestly ablution can make him one. For if this were so, a similar ceremony under devil worship could make him a member of Satan.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Christian, Children, Men

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• You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

  Tracy Letts

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

  Bentley Little

  Evil, Matter, Murder

  Bentley Little (1997). “The Ignored”, Signet

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• Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Responsibility, Difficult Situations, People

  Thom S. Rainer (2010). “Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap”, p.62, Harper Collins

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• Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Expectations, Answers, Demand

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.209, Xist Publishing

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• We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

  Gerda Lerner

  Knowledge, Past, Actions Have Consequences

  Gerda Lerner (1998). “Why History Matters: Life and Thought”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Responsibility, Fate, Soul

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• The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Block, Character

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Autobiography of John Stuart Mill”, p.270, The Floating Press

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• We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.

  Radhanath Swami

  Pain, Confusion, Judging

  "The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami". Book by Radhanath Swami, 2009.

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• Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.

  Billy Davies

  Track, Trying, Records

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• The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself.

  Jean-Baptiste Biot

  Taken, Steps, Fundamentals

  John Farrar, Jean-Baptiste Biot, César Mansuète Despretz (1839). “Elements of Electricity, Magnetism, and Electro-dynamics: Embracing the Late Discoveries and Improvements, Digested Into the Form of a Treatise : Being the Second Part of a Course of Natural Philosophy, Compiled for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England”, p.2

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• Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Expansion, Way, Faces

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 53), February 26, 1964.

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• Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Running, Government, Balance

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 249), March 29, 1967.

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• I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings.

  Henry Dunant

  Moving, Writing, Giving

  "A Memory of Solferino". Book by Henry Dunant, p. 16; As quoted in The Independent, February 22, 2002, 1862.

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• Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Wine, Water, Long

  "The Sacred Depths of Nature". Book by Ursula Goodenough, 1998.

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• The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Mean, Leader, Church

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• Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

  James MacDonald

  People, Perfect, Missing

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.77, Moody Publishers

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• There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

  Randal Marlin

  Communication, Special, Benefits

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.9, Broadview Press

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• All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within. With good reason then, we can solemnly declare that the 'exterior is the reflection of the interior.' When someone changes internally and if that change is radical, then circumstances, life and the external also change.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Reflection, World, Reason

  Samael Aun Weor (2013). “Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology: The Gnostic Method of Real Spiritual Awakening”, p.9, Glorian Publishing

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• If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

  Bill Parcells

  Athlete, Competition, Care

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• We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)

  Judie Brown

  Abortion, Drug, Pills

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• How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.

  Eben Alexander

  Eye, Self, Views

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns. Marmots will also do in a pinch, but under no circumstances should you think of elk. No. Elk. The elkless among you may now proceed.

  Maryrose Wood

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• I've been a victor of circumstance.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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