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Jai Ganesh

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Circumstance Quotes - I

Circumstance Quotes - I

1. I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. - James Baldwin

2. The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary. - Sonali Bendre

3. The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone. - Neil Armstrong

5. In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. - Charles Babbage

6. It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. - George Eliot

7. When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity. - Maria Montessori

8. The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. - E. O. Wilson.

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