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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Again Any Any Circumstances Church Circumstances Does Every Grave Him Rise Stone Up Want

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Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: About Accustomed Actually Asleep Cannon Circumstances Conditions Exhaustion Fell Get Heads Human Men Most Nerves Noticed Number Our Over Quickly Quite Roaring Sheer Spite Trenches Unusual Us

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At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.

~Fritz Sauckel

Topics: Any Chapters Circumstances Definitely Done Everything Life Other Party Publicly Secrecy Secret Should Time Very Were

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You can't always change your circumstances, but you can change the way you experience them.

~Gabrielle Bernstein

Topics: Always Change Circumstances Experience Them Way You Your

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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.

~Gail Collins

Topics: Any Any Circumstances Being Between Big Big One Call Career Children Circumstances Gap Hours Involves Issue Job Juggle Kind Long Long Hours Lots Me Men Reasons Shooting Tough Trying Wages Women Work You 24-7

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The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.

~Gary Zukav

Topics: Circumstances Coming Faces Give Going Joy Like Lives More Our Our Lives Pain Pond Radiant Reflects Seasons Shows Summers Surface Than Us Winters

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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

~Gary Zukav

Topics: Cannot Choose Circumstances Control Emotions Experience How Next Respond Them We Cannot Will

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I usually tried to stay in the net for 45 minutes, half an hour longer than most batsmen would stick at the county nets. There was a reason for this so-called gluttony of practice: it was a conscious effort to make myself concentrate for long periods of time in circumstances as close to the real thing as I could make them.

~Geoffrey Boycott

Topics: Circumstances Close Concentrate Conscious Conscious Effort Could County Effort Gluttony Half Hour Long Long Periods Longer Make Minutes Most Myself Net Nets Periods Practice Real Real Thing Reason So-Called Stay Stick Than Them Thing Time Tried Would

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People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Because Believe Better Circumstances Community Faith Folks Get History Hope Hopelessness Lose Norm Over People Proven Things Understand Where Whole Will Years You

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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

Topics: Call Certain Circumstances Deeds Demand Even Greatest Insensitivity Just Most Other Performance Requires Spirit Stupidity Talent Which Wicked Would

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