Circumstances Quote by James Surowiecki

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“Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.”

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There's no debt limit in the Constitution.

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Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

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