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But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.

~Georg Solti

Topics: Became Circumstances Country Day Destiny Family Home Hunt Hunted Left Life Me Music Native Object One Day Parted Returning Still Turned Young

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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

Topics: Circumstances Find Get Look Make People Them Up Want Who World

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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

~George Boole

Topics: Acquaintance Affecting Certainty Change Circumstances Demand Event Expectation Founded Knowledge Leave Nor Occurrence Partial Perfect Probability Room Theory Would

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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

~George C. Williams

Topics: Based Capable Circumstances Darwin Empirical Every Favorable Generalizations Go His Increasing Inherited Numbers Organism Organisms Out See Strictly Sufficiently Theory Variations Vary Were You

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Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

~George Eads

Topics: Any Bit Cast Circumstances Close Compromising Draw Emotion Like Little Little Bit Pretty Put Real Shake Think Time Up You I Think

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Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we do trust in one or more of these, and in that case do not trust in God.

~George Muller

Topics: Anything Besides Case Circumstances Either Fellow-Men God More Neither Nor Our Ourselves Trust

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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

~George Saintsbury

Topics: Atmosphere Begun Circumstances Early Exercise Growth Had Influence Italian Prose Tale Time Were

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It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

~George W. S. Trow

Topics: Advanced Backward Begins Belong Choice Circumstances Class Coherence Difficult Eclectic Ends Many Nation Often Process Thing Troubling Which

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Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

~Georgette Mosbacher

Topics: Any Circumstances Defeat Down Face Feminine Force Inner Inner Strength Life Negative Power Strength Them Will

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Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

~Gerald Edelman

Topics: Brain Circumstances Different Each Exposed History Likely The History Of Unique Universe Very Your

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