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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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

— Marquis De Custine

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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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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 history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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