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Jai Ganesh

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Circumstances Quotes - III

Circumstances Quotes - III

1. We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. - Benjamin Franklin

2. Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. - Edmund Burke

3. It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. - Karl Marx

4. Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. - T. E. Lawrence

5. However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. - Tony Blair

6. 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

7. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. - Horace

8. Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. - Jean-Paul Sartre.

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