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A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.


Alfred Kazin

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CAI RUMOHR I think under other circumstances it's possible this is something the board might have overlooked,
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Patronage is the only element that keeps a company alive.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He is the only one who kills me, yet keeps me alive.
MISS HANNAH HOWITT Given the circumstances, the colleagues made a good impression which I am delighted about.
PETER BIENERT It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
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ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
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ORISON SWETT MARDEN Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent...
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ALFRED SLOAN There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obsta...
ALFRED SLOAN Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so...
ALFRED SLOAN If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED SLOAN The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
ALFRED SISLEY I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
ALFRED SISLEY Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
ALFRED SISLEY Our family lived in Vienna, Austria. after the war and apart from an accordion, there was no other m...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.
ALFRED SCHNITTKE