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“However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.”

Situation Enemy Danger Depends Circumstances Despair Resources Surprise Desperate Mma Unafraid Resourcefulness Fear None

Author:Sun Tzu

“Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.”

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source: The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure

“Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?”

Long Doe Running Change Loses Circumstances Gains Confusion Desperate Boldness Uneasy Nothing To Lose

Book:Utopia

Source: Utopia

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.”

“People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.”

People Ifs Thinking Littles Long Helping Hate Goes On Circumstances Laughter Pleasant Desperate

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I think the voters who voted for Donald Trump certainly are willing to tolerate a lot of ugliness, but maybe, if you're in desperate circumstances, or you think America is deeply in trouble, you're willing to tolerate that without necessarily liking it.”

Ifs Thinking America Trouble Willing Trump Circumstances Desperate Voters Tolerate Ugliness

Author:David Brooks

“They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.”

Knows Persons Simple Identity Circumstances Comfort Understood Embrace Intimacy Desperate Abandon Allowing Folds Fiber Replicate

Author:Christopher Paolini

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.”

Knows Motivational Circumstances Desperate Encouraging Cheerful

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton