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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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• 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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• 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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• My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.

  Jerry Moran

  Goal, Succeed, Failing

  "Moran peddles bill at SXSW" by Kim Hart, www.politico.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.

  James Dobson

  Vote, Mccain

  "Dobson: 'I Would Not Vote for John McCain Under Any Circumstances'" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. January 15, 2007.

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• The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.

  Benjamin Mkapa

  Ideas, Decision, Brotherhood

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• Your character should always be stronger than your circumstances.

  Dave Willis

  Character, Stronger, Should

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 12, 2017

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• When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.

  Jeff Olson

  Responsibility, Fate, Hands

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• When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• Stick to your values in all circumstances.

  Joel Manby

  Sticks, Values

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• One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Country, Perspective, Trying

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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