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“Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.”

Source: Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative

“Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.”

Law Natural Justice Written Circumstances Demand Determined Endeavor Formulas Natural Justice

Author:Victor Cousin

“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.”

Play Use Circumstances Demand

Author:John Amos Comenius

“Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?”

Want Giving Reason Desire Purpose Humanity Circumstances Terrible Cost Demand Commitment Essence Excuse What You Want Theme Purpose Of Life Denied Apology Quests

Author:Stuart Wilde

“The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.”

Sometimes Speak Challenges Situation Circumstances Conversation Demand Silent Holiness Holiday Invites

Author:Mark Hart

“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.”

Spirit Certain Talent Circumstances Demand Performances Deeds Stupidity Wicked Insensitivity

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”

Ifs Giving Happiness Success Joy Difficult Change Human Nature Circumstances Demand Adversity Bounds Inner Peace Looking For Happiness Difficult Circumstances

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.”

Ifs Seems Courses Circumstances Demand Iron

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

Source: Catch-22: A Novel