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• Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

  Harry Frankfurt

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• Never, under any circumstances, argue with a tired woman. She is always right.

  Dean Karnazes

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• Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don’t have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

  Sam Harris

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  To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

  Bruce Lee

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• I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

  Julie Courtney Sullivan

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• I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

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• Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

  Napoleon Hill

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  Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

  Jack London

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• Nobody likes a bad sport, no matter what the circumstances are.

  Jeff Ross

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• As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

  Peter Snell

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• If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there’s no grain of sand to make the pearl.

  Peter Sarsgaard

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• Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.

  Pat Brown

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• I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

  Ben Chandler

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• It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

  George Eliot

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• It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

  Thomas Reid

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance

  Thomas Carlyle

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• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  E. O. Wilson

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• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  Ted Lindsay

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• We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

  William Stephenson

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• The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.

  William Falconer

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