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It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Reid

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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. ↗

— C. P. Scott

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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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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

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ↗

— Hugh Downs

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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine. ↗

— Christian Bale

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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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