T. S. Eliot Quotes, Events Quotes, Bottles Quotes

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

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We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

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... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

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All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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