Circumstances Quotes
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If there's one generalization you can make, it's that Roth IRAs are for younger people, but that may extend up as high as 50, depending on the circumstances.
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God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.
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I agree with God’s Word; I disagree with any condition, situation or circumstance contrary to that Word.
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Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
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Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.
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Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.
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Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
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You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
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The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet...
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I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.
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Therefore we should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors do. They don't try to change the winds or the sea but ensure that they are always ready to adapt themselves to conditions. In a flat calm they use the oars; with a following breeze they hoist full sail; in a head wind they shorten sail or heave to. Adapt yourself to circumstances in the same way.
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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
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It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic.
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The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a number of human beings placed in certain circumstances; and we see, arising from the co-operation of their characters in these circumstances, certain actions. These actions beget others, and these others beget others again, until this series of inter-connected deeds leads by an apparently inevitable sequence to a catastrophe.
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A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
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The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
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A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.
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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.
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It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.
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The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
