#circumstances

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. ↗

— James Allen

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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

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When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. ↗

— Dougray Scott

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Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. ↗

— Johann G. Seume

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We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup. ↗

— Hilary Swank

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