Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Events Quotes, Results Quotes

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

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

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

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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

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

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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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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

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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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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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The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

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The act is judged of by the event.

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

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

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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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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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