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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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- Different Roles
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We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?
- Any Circumstances
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I always think any circumstances can be funny. Not that I'm irresponsible, but when things go wrong, I always come up with a joke or think of something funny to say.
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Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That's what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff.
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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
- Things Happen
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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.
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I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.
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In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.
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If we create a framework for decision-making that is biased toward life, supportive of families, and fair to people of all circumstances, our policies, legislation, and commercial decisions will be vastly different.
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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
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.