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“My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.”

May Mean Pleasure Circumstances Function Intellect Reactions Secure Welfare Symptoms Modifying

Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

“Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.”

Perspective Circumstances Function

Author:Lindsay Wagner

“The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.”

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Author:Elizabeth George

“I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.”

Source: In defense of Harriet Shelley

“I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.”

Thinking Today Given Balance Circumstances Findings Function

Author:Emily Barton

“Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.”

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Book:On Symbols and Society

Source: On Symbols and Society

“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”

Soul Quality Materials Circumstances Function

Author:Aristotle

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

“It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.”

Ifs May Mean Certain Animal Teach Effects Circumstances Function Errors Instinct Coffee Tea Disadvantages Daily Experience

Book:Mrs Beeton's Household Management

Source: Mrs Beeton's Household Management

“All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.”

“A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being does not change depending on their circumstances.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II