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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

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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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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

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

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There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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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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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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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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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

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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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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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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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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

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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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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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