#circumstance

Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently because your kid's in the world now. When it's just you, whatever happens happens but now you pay more attention to political things. You pay more attention to things because your daughter or your son has to deal with these circumstances. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

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I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

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Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which I think and feel, underlay that former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and will always circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#death

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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