- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Circumstances Quotes
Most Famous Circumstances Quotes of All Time!
Circumstances, this small collection argues, rarely stay predictable - reform often surfaces developments nobody anticipated at the outset. That same unpredictability shapes tough calls in diplomacy, where pressing one issue too hard can sometimes backfire on the very cause it means to help, a tension also explored in our Life collection.
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- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.
- Expedient
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- Nov 07, 2020
Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different would be folly and obstinacy, and not consistency.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.
- Debilitating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living with mental illness is not a choice and can lead to debilitating circumstances.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a trader. Under the right circumstances, I'd consider a new boat. I'm not ruling it out.
- Extraordinary Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
- Nov 07, 2020
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
- Opposites
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- Nov 07, 2020
Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.
There's a broader lesson too: firm approaches make sense in some circumstances, but no single strategy solves every global problem. For more on adapting to what life brings, see our Change collection.