#circumstances

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself. ↗

— Cordell Hull

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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. ↗

— George C. Williams

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Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

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Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

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It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different. ↗

— Kate Millett

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