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• Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

  Hadewijch

  Honor, Damnation, Care

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.49, Paulist Press

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• From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Women, Rights, Religion

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• If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Long, Preparation, Might

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• Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Behave, Day Life, Day To Day

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• By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Doors, Balance, Shifting

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Hands, House, Looks

  "'We Have to Tackle This -- With Peaceful Means'". Interview with Thilo Thielke, www.spiegel.de. November 22, 2010.

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• You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

  Robert Greene

  Law, Mind, Doe

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Disappointment, Discovery, Mind

  Ann Radcliffe (1820). “The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.”, p.187

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• Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Personality, Criminals, Would Be

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• To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life.

  John Angell James

  Adversity, Long, Hopeful

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 565, 1895.

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• Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Grief, Loss, Men

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.228, tredition

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• happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

  Flora Thompson

  Happiness, Mind, Events

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.52, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Biblical, Failing, Christ

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.277

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• The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower and the ability to take the right decision and the right position after studying all options, once the circumstances that favor creativity and rational thinking are available.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Strong, Sex, Creativity

  "The Woman's Personality and Role in Life". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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• Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.

  Raymond Geuss

  Historical, Principles, Needs

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.

  African Spir

  Compassion, Acting, Selfishness

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.

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• One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Memories, Thinking, Remember

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

  Jason Silva

  Serendipity, Unexpected, Plans

  "We Can All Be the Authors of Our Own Lives" by Jason Silva, bigthink.com.

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• No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

  Mary Somerville

  Race, Color, Diversity

  Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.479

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• People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.

  Gunter Pauli

  Nature, Opportunity, Stressful Situations

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• Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Money, Mistake, Comfort

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• success is not a matter of circumstance, but of power to meet circumstance.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Success, Matter, Action

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• in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

  Fred Vargas

  Thinking, Luxury, Embarrassment

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• So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Live Life, Forever, Victim

  Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.44, Hampton Roads Publishing

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