A Quote by Jarvis Cocker
I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.
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If you believe you are an effect of the world around you - that your happiness is dependent on this thing or that person - then you are always going to be a victim of circumstance to one degree or another.
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
success is not a matter of circumstance, but of power to meet circumstance.
Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.
So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are.
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they know where they are going and they know that they are going to get there.
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
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