Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
quote by Mark Twain
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
The fortunate: "I am myself and my circumstances." The unfortunate: "I am my circumstances and myself."
aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
quote by Jackie Chan
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Man is the creature of circumstances.
quote by Robert Owen
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Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
quote by Augustus Hare
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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
quote by Blaine Lee
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
quote by David Trimble
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
quote by Edmund Burke
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Lonely Locals
It is a bad situation
to be a lonely local
Because your circumstances
Have put you
In a small locale.
Take the way out
That most locals
Take.
Use the internet
And change your circumstances
To move you
Out of your locale.
poem by Lonely People Champion
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Crouching Creature
I am a Crouching Creature
bounded by Circumstance
and Choices I've made.
I pound against
the Circumstantial Wall
and I choose to bloody
my own fists against it all
but defiant
I will not relent
and measure this
as my commitment
to fight these chains.
Choosing in life
and family
in the world and my
career
is bounded by my iron Circumstances.
Where does my Circumstance live
and how can I circumvent
its boundaries?
Can I move?
Can I melt into some one's else's
Circumstance?
Will I in choosing
merely replicate
old choices
and old Circumstance?
I must I tell my self:
break away from me
and my choosing
to the extent
these choices make
my old and new
Circumstances endlessly repeating.
.
Yet, I hope somehow
with magical bent
to break that wall.
What do you think?
Will I succeed?
poem by Lonnie Hicks
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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
quote by Neville Chamberlain
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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
quote by Lord Byron
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.
quote by Joseph Brodsky
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
quote by Barbara de Angelis
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
quote by Jack Youngblood
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