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• Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Mean, Men, Doors

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• In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Long, Competition

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press, USA

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• El principio, el medio y el fin del nacimiento, crecimiento y perfección de todo lo que contemplamos es de los contrarios, por los contrarios y hacia los contrarios; y sea lo que sea la contrariedad, hay acción y reacción, hay movimiento, diversidad, multitud y orden, hay grados, sucesión y vicisitud.

  Giordano Bruno

  Orden, opuestos, diversidad

  Giordano Bruno (1962). "Causa, principio y unidad: Cinco diálogos"

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• The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Religion, Sects

  Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 6”, p.514

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• Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

  Hugh Blair

  World, Violent, Ability

  Hugh Blair (1827). “Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait”, p.17

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• Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign:
  The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitude of fortune.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Yield, Race

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• The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.

  Benjamin Graham

  Mountain, Ordinary, Majors

  Benjamin Graham (1959). "El inversor inteligente: Un libro de consejos prácticos"

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• Y pensé, hace ocho años, cuando empecé a trazar cuidadosamente el progreso de American Gods, sumergiendo nerviosamente los dedos de mis pies en las aguas de los blogs, ¿habría imaginado un futuro en el que, en lugar de registrar las vicisitudes de traer un libro al mundo, estaría escribiendo sobre tazas de manzanilla fría que ni siquiera me interesaban? Y pensé, sí. Suena bastante bien. Feliz octavo cumpleaños, blog.

  Neil Gaiman

  Libro, Escritura, Ocho

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• The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Past, Men, Race

  Peter Kropotkin (2016). “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution”, p.342, Peter Kropotkin

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• You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Good Life, War, Fate

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.63, Bottom of the Hill

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• So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

  William James

  Taken, Mean, Ideas

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.115, Nuvision Pubns

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• The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Life, Fall, Water

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• Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Ocean, Sky, Wind

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• ¿Qué clase es más feliz, la rica, la media o la pobre? Un ejecutivo de gran éxito de una gran organización aborda este tema vital en una larga carta dirigida a todos sus vendedores. Utiliza como texto un pasaje de Robinson Crusoe que incluye lo siguiente: "Mi padre me ordenó que lo observara, y siempre descubrí que las calamidades de la vida se repartían entre la parte superior e inferior de la humanidad, pero que la clase media era la que sufría menos desastres y no estaba expuesta a tantas vicisitudes como la parte superior o inferior de la humanidad.

  B. C. Forbes

  Padre, Éxito, Clase

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• There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Political, Enemy, One Day

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• Dado que nuestra región está dotada de muchos recursos naturales, entre ellos un razonable suministro de agua dulce, necesitamos y podemos trabajar juntos para asegurar esta zona frente a estas vicisitudes.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Water, Together, Needs

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• Si comenzamos con... un escrupuloso respeto a la Constitución, el gobierno adquirirá un espíritu y un tono productivo de bendiciones permanentes para la comunidad. Si, por el contrario,... la Constitución es menospreciada o desvirtuada con cualquier pretexto frívolo, el futuro del gobierno será débil, distraído y arbitrario. Los derechos de los súbditos serán el deporte de todas las vicisitudes partidistas. No habrá ninguna regla de conducta establecida, sino que todo fluctuará con la prevalencia alterna de las facciones contendientes.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sports, Party, Blessing

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• The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.

  Alfonso de Lamartine

  Caída, Ángel, Corazón

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• Nada retiene más la atención del lector que las profundas involuciones de la angustia o las súbitas vicisitudes de la fortuna; y éstas podrían ser proporcionadas abundantemente por las memorias de los hijos de la literatura. Están enredados por contratos que no saben cómo cumplir, y obligados a escribir sobre temas que no comprenden. Cada publicación es un nuevo período de tiempo, a partir del cual hay que contar algún aumento o disminución de la fama. La vida de un héroe pasa de batalla en batalla, y la de un autor, de libro en libro.

  Samuel Johnson

  Libro, Héroe, Escritura

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.406

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• Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Our Generation, Tasks, Generations

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• El rico, cuando contribuye a un plan permanente para la educación de los pobres, debe reflexionar que está proveyendo para la de sus propios descendientes; y el pobre que concurre a una provisión para los que no son pobres, que en un día no lejano podrá ser disfrutada por descendientes suyos. No hace falta una larga vida para ser testigo de estas vicisitudes de la fortuna.

  James Madison

  Educación, Hombres, Largo

  James Madison (1965). "La forja del federalismo americano: escritos selectos de James Madison".

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• En medio de las vicisitudes de la superficie terrestre, las especies no pueden ser inmortales, sino que deben perecer, una tras otra, como los individuos que las componen. No hay posibilidad de escapar a esta conclusión.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Escaping, Extinction

  Sir Charles Lyell (1853). “Principles of geology ; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology”, p.696

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• The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sunshine, Long, Unity

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.349, e-artnow

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• Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Acceptance, Knowing

  "Concerning the Our Father". "Waiting on God". Book by Simone Weil, Routledge & Kegan Paul edition, p. 153, 1972.

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• Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Order, Long

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc

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