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“When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns.”

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.”

Needs Stills Faces Turns Fire Events Materials Higher Circumstances Aim Obstacles Pursue Fuel Thrown Inward Lamps Consumed

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.”

Ifs May Order Silence Higher Circumstances Justify Reserves Our Thoughts Prudence Decorum

Book:Reflections on the French Revolution

Source: Reflections on the French Revolution

“The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.”

Needs Feels Firsts Objects Greatness Habit Higher Circumstances Comfort Activity Perception Lows Luxury Indifference Palaces Banquets

Book:Society and solitude

Source: Society and solitude

“On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.”

Source: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)

“Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.”

May States Helping Problem Political Politics Technology Higher Circumstances Protection Planning Ideology Firm Manifestation Technological Compulsion Political Will

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.”

People Thinking Writing Faces Interest Laughing Emotional Higher Circumstances Scene Bigger Graves Courageous Stakes Getting Old Getting Older

Author:Judd Apatow

“Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.”

Shows Theory Higher Circumstances Claims Probability

Author:Elliott Sober