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• The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Live Life, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can ensure that each South African child, whatever the circumstances of their birth, inherits freedom they can use.

  Helen Zille

  Children, Issues, Political

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• I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

  Todd Gitlin

  Thinking, Trying, Limits

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

  Marian Keyes

  Doubt, Suffering, No Doubt

  "Give the guy a break" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2002.

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• My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Issues, Population, Film

  "Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy". Interview with Ellie Knaus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aging, Periods, Certain

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• I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.

  Donal Logue

  Air, Years, People

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.

  Danny Pino

  Differences, Together, Able

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• Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Libertarian, Normal, Arguing

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.36, Cato Institute

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• We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

  Donna Shalala

  Country, Growing Up, School

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• One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Mean, People, Perspective

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• Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Boring

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• Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Falling In Love, Buddhism

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• Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Hate

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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

  Acting, Pearls, Sand

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• I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Grateful, Rights, Voice

  "Men Explain Things to Me — Facts Didn’t Get in the Way" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

  Mo Yan

  Thinking, Profound, Understanding

  "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

  Steven Yeun

  Honesty, Real, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Loss

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• There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

  Edward Zwick

  Men, Numbers, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

  A. B. Simpson

  Character, Men, Calling

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• It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone gunmen or else died in suspicious circumstances. We refer of course to the likes of JFK, Martin Luther King, Benazir Bhutto, Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon, to name but a few.

  James Morcan

  Kings, War, Names

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• Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Nice, Mean

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Commitment, Liberty, Doe

  "Existentialism Is a Humanism". Lecture, 1946.

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