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“No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.”

Country Matter Parent Born Chance Poor Talent Like You Circumstances Connected

Author:Marco Rubio

“All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.”

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.”

Ifs Men Giving I Can Beautiful Poor Study Saws Circumstances Paint Naked Beautiful Things

Book:Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Source: Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”

“Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?”

Poor Words Of Wisdom Circumstances Harm Permit Cheerful

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.”

Ifs Poor Poverty Conditions Position Circumstances Abundance Finding Yourself Remedy Personal Relationships Poor Health

Author:Seth

“I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her. She is very sweet. I also know what that is like. I have heard my agent thinking he has hit mute on the phone before he, you know, physically unleashes broken glass and cellphones at his poor assistant. It is a tough job under the best of circumstances. I understand that.”

Thinking Knows Jobs Poor Heard Sweet Broken Circumstances Tough Glasses Phones Tendencies Agents Assistants Mute Abusive Cellphone Very Sweet Broken Glass

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.”

Men Way Poor Moral Circumstances Socialism Observation Free Market

Author:Leonard Read

“One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So managers read about a fad and try it, find that it doesn't work, abandon the effort, and move on to the next thing. In reality, it is usually the case that the faddish prescription was indeed sound advice in certain circumstances, but actually was poor advice in other circumstances.”

Way Trying Reason Reality Moving Certain Next Sound Poor Effort Cases Advice Circumstances Management Managers Abandon Prescriptions Fads Short Lived Sound Advice

Author:Clayton Christensen

“Life is about committing ourselves on a daily basis to the best in us. Freedom is a state of mind. Freedom is an attitude. Freedom is a spirit. You may be behind bars, but you still have the capacity to be free. I've visited some people behind bars who are freer than Negroes I see running around every day. Being in jail, or poor, or uneducated doesn't determine how free you can be. There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.”

People Mind Running Spirit Poor Attitude Circumstances Determine Scared State Of Mind Uneducated

Author:Tavis Smiley

“Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.”

World Wells Country Young Used Spirit Parent Can Do Poor Circumstances Blessed Despite Used To Be Fortunate Korea Poorest Being Blessed

Author:Lee Myung-bak

“I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.”

People Ideas Given Poor Money Involved Circumstances No Idea Poor People Get Involved Lending Bangladesh Lending Money

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family; then the church; next the community, finally the county, and, in a disaster or emergency, the state. Under no circumstances is the federal government to become involved in public welfare. The Founders felt it would corrupt the government and also the poor. No Constitutional authority exists for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare.”

Source: The Making of America