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Jai Ganesh

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Circumstances Quotes - VII

Circumstances Quotes - VII

1. Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. - Herodotus

2. In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid. - Wilhelm Ostwald

3. No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place. - Fidel Castro

4. I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. - Tony Blair

5. Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result? - Pieter Zeeman

6. It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war. - Robert Walpole

7. I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show. - Michael Chang

8. When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances. - John Major.

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