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“Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.”

Humans Age Society Human Nature Circumstances Civilized

Book:Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

“The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.”

Needs Age Lasts Life Is Energy Conditions Emotional Circumstances Determined Convinced Awakening Our Thoughts Vitality Thoughts On Life Emotional Life Close Relationship

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .”

Men Age Decision Circumstances Offers Shapes Resources Satisfied Chosen Alternatives Hats

Author:George Eliot

“Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.”

People Ifs Writing Wells Age Certain Situation Depends Circumstances Sexually

Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same.”

People May War Age Grief Changed Circumstances And Love Longing Rage Planes Chariots

Author:Madeline Miller

“Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But it's not unusual. I discovered I had a voice. I wanted to be a pianist when I was seven, and circumstances didn't allow that I studied it.”

Age Wanted Used Voice Circumstances Late Singing Seven Singers Unusual Pianist

Author:Dolora Zajick

“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.”

“Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose. Freedom is the strength of character to choose and to do what is right. With that in mind, our age is not an age of freedom, but an age of slavery. It is subtle, but it is real. The foundation of freedom is not power or choice. Freedom is upheld not by men and women in government, but by people who govern themselves.”

People Men Want Mind Real Character Government Age Choices Opportunity Freedom Circumstances Men And Women Foundation Slavery Subtle Strength Of Character Do Whatever You Want

Author:Matthew Kelly

“The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe, cruel, and oppressive measures. Instead of endeavoring to establish their authority in the affection of their subjects, they think they have no security but in their fear.”

People Thinking May Age Past Subjects Security Circumstances Authority Affection Rulers Severe

Book:The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

“We must never, in any age or circumstance, let fear and the father of fear (Satan himself) divert us from our faith and faithful living.”

Age Father Circumstances Faithful Satan

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ Our Lord, He had conferred on my beloved country in her emancipation and on myself in permitting me, under circumstances of mercy, to live to the age of 89 years, and to survive the fiftieth year of independence, adopted by Congress on the 4th of July 1776.”

“Well, it's my age group, anywhere from, I'd say 30 to 70. The biggest comment I get about the book is how honest it is and that people can relate to my circumstances going across the line. Anybody could learn and deal with this book from reading it.”

People Wells Book Age Reading Lines Deals Groups Honest Circumstances Relate Comment

Author:Darlene Love

“With everything you're letting go, I'm sure it's going to have a different value to you. And every time you let go you're going to be a different age or there's going to be different circumstances. So I think the best way to do it is to simply wish the best for that thing.”

Thinking Way Different Age Values Wish Circumstances Letting Go Best Way Different Ages Different Values

Author:Jason Mraz

“When we believe in our child fully, we trust that they are doing the very best they can at every moment, given their age, past experience and present circumstances. It is this kind of trust that I mean when I talk about parenting being on their child's side. Having someone dependably 'on their side' is absolutely critical if a child is to grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. If we aren't on their side, who will be?”

Ifs Believe Kind Mean Children Moments Age Past Given Grows Sides Circumstances Capacity Our Children Critical Generous Adulthood Past Experiences Love And Trust

Author:Jan Hunt

“We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always be known to our intellects. Nothing happens randomly. And at the same time, we have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.”

Soul Happens Age Purpose Order Ability Powerful Known Birth Circumstances Healthy Intellect Things Happen Chosen

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Women of all ages in countries around the world are raped at all different times of day, in different circumstances, wearing all different kinds of clothing (including in countries where the majority of women wear completely covering clothing). The one thing they all have in common? They came into contact with a rapist.”

World Kind Different Country Age Common One Thing Circumstances Majority Including Contact Around The World Clothings Different Kinds Covering Different Times Time Of Day

Author:Laura Bates

“A lot of the problems of parenthood are universal. Yes, it's harder being younger and growing up yourself, but all those anxieties and problems are going to be faced by anyone at any age. When people hear about teenage parents and teenage pregnancy, they attribute a lot of personality traits to those individuals, which is just such a bizarre thing when you really think about it. Like, how does age and circumstance equate to some kind of personality trait?”

People Thinking Kind Problem Age Individual Parent Growing Up Personality Circumstances Anxiety Pregnancy Parenthood Traits Teenage Bizarre Personality Traits

Author:Aisling Loftus

“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.”

Men Character Happens Age Youth Circumstances Aging Obvious Old Age Characteristics Superficial Observers Never Change

Author:Hesketh Pearson

“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.”

Philosophy Age Nations Race Situation Class Circumstances Creating Birthday Existential Torches

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”

Age Happiness Grows Growing Up Youth Confidence Circumstances Tricks Birthday Getting Old Inspirational Birthday

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.”

Age Political Opportunity Growth Ability Boys Tree Conditions Development Circumstances Garden Stones Personal Growth Determined Apples Lions Innate Constrain Apple Trees Stone Age

Author:Jostein Gaarder