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My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Ambition Bit Break Came Certain Certain Way Children Circumstances Dreams Family Female Founded Fulfill Had Her Just Life Little Little Bit Magazine Mom Mother Old Out Set She Too Turned Two Up Way Were Would Ms

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Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Circumstances Life Stream Unending

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A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Applicable Book Circumstances Correlation Doing Explain Great Great Book Out Point Seeks Where Which Works

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Never allow other people to classify you based on your past and current circumstances, where you were born, your experiences, your gender, or your race.

~Clemantine Wamariya

Topics: Allow Based Born Circumstances Classify Current Experiences Gender Never Other Past People Race Were Where You Your

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I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

~Colin Firth

Topics: Because Bit Choosing Circumstances Depending Desire Dying Front Group Job Me Myself Options People Reasons Seriously Shake Sometimes Take Things Too Up Vary Work

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The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

~Condoleezza Rice

Topics: America Circumstances Come Essence Ethnicity Great Great Things Humble Idea Nationality Really Religion Things Unites Us Which You

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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

~Confucius

Topics: Circumstances Earnestness Five Generosity Gravity Kindness Perfect Practice Sincerity Soul Things Virtue

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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

~Cordell Hull

Topics: Air Attendant Become Breathe Cast Circumstances Civilized Essential Existence Itself Life Ominous Peace Second Second World War Shadow War Which World World Peace World War

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I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight.

~Cornel West

Topics: Against Circumstances Committed Does Fascism Fight Genocide Justice Peace Recognize Sense Still Them Think Which Willing I Think

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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

~Cory Booker

Topics: African African American American Away Before Better Better Life Born Chances Circumstances Days Election Father Few Growing Growing Up Had He His Last Life Man Mother Passed Poor Same Single Single Mother South Than Today Up Worry Would Years Young Young Man

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