Alan Watts Quotes, Flames Quotes, Events Quotes

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

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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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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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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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The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

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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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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

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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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Places remember events.

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

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From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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

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

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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

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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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