#circumstance

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her. ↗

— Richard Carlson

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In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. ↗

— Catherine II

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I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

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To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

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History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. ↗

— Donald Creighton

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We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. ↗

— Marquis De Custine

#circumstances #complicated #human #human society #mathematical