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“In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.”

War Problem Law Courses Force Chance Enemy Plans Military Fit Circumstances Mets Survival Overcoming Accounts Practicals Alternatives Opposing Adaptability Obstruction

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.”

Law Circumstances

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.”

Thinking Eye Law Causes Natural Walks Wonder Circumstances Scientist Philosopher Perceive Operations Midst Accustomed Novelty Uninformed

Author:John Herschel

“When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.”

Should Law Wonderful Sea Circumstances South Disaster Covered Bubbles Speculation Paradigm

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.”

Ifs Law Purpose Justice Cases Judging Circumstances Mark Abandon Discretion Adapted

Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

“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

“All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.”

Source: The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications

“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

“If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.”

Ifs Wells Law Interesting Situation Personality Circumstances Adults Developing Teenager Adolescence Unattractive Alleviate Insufferable Interesting Personalities

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness.”

Source: The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

“You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.”

Mind Doe Law Depends Bears Circumstances

Author:Robert Greene