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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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

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The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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

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

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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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As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

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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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You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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The act is judged of by the event.

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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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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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I've been through a lot of ups and downs. I've been on both sides of it all, I guess. So there's not one specific event or thought that I'm dealing with or drawing from necessarily.

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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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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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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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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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