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• Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men. -- Byro
• Circumstances can force a generalised incompetent to become competent, at least in a specialised field.
  -- Freeman's Rule...
• Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Vivian Grey, Book vi, Chap. vii...
• There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
  -- Admiral William Halsey...
• It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
  -- Emerso...
• Appearances deceive and this one maxim is a standing rule: Men are not what they seem. -- Harvard
• Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Fate is just the weight of circumstances...