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“All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.”

Should Children Done Eye Mother Circumstances Tough Should Have Temperament Mother Love Going Gets Tough

Author:Fay Weldon

“Before we snap to judge someone who's done a horrible crime, is it possible that all of us in the worst possible circumstances could be capable of something like that? So it's about not judging people before really considering what the circumstance was and that not all murderers are created equal. We have a tendency in our society to just say murder? Cut and dried. Go away forever. Or maybe you should have the electric chair yourself.”

“Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.”

“A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.”

Should Littles Has Beens Made Science Wonderful Circumstances Discovery Should Have Sole Sublime Assistance Should Have Been Arithmetic

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

“A commander should have a profound understanding of human nature, the knack of smoothing out troubles, the power of winning affection while communicating energy, and the capacity for ruthless determination where require by circumstances. He needs to generate an electrifying current, and to keep a cool head in applying it.”

“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.”

Thinking Men Should Different Law Worry Circumstances Should Have Every Man Commandments

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

“She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.”

Ifs Knows Needs Giving Should Believe Long Done Felt Know How Events Circumstances Should Have Meetings Indifference Long Ago Indifferent Unwilling

Book:Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.”

People Ifs Should Long Light Might Science Energy Known Sun Impossible Citizens Circumstances Pure Should Have Paris Expensive Sensible Candle Saving Time

Author:Benjamin Franklin