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Quote:To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.[Bruce Lee]

Quote:A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.[Oliver Wendell Holmes]

Quote: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]

Quote:Man was made for action, and to promote by the exertion of his faculties such changes in the external circumstances both of himself and others, as may seem most favourable to the happiness of all.[Adam Smith]

Quote:I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. [Henry David Thoreau]

Quote:I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. [William James]



Definitions of: circumstance

Definition: That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.

Definition: An event; a fact; a particular incident.

Definition: Circumlocution; detail.

Definition: Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

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