Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal."
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Events
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Aristotle
Philosopher
"We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition."
Virginia Satir
Psychotherapist, Author
"Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events."
Virginia Satir
Psychotherapist, Author
"I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself."
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"We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history."
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"I'm not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this. The best place in the world to watch a sporting event."
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"The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English."
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"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it."
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"Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule."
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"After the event, even a fool is wise."
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"It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo."
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"man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer"
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"A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture."
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"We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations."
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"Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions"
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"One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings."
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"A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead."
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"We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer."
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"The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event."
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"If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way."
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"If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range."
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"It was electric. When Death Valley is rocking, it seems as if it might actually take flight. On Saturday, I went back to Baton Rouge to see Alabama barely beat LSU, and was, once again, reminded that Tiger Stadium is the best place in the world to watch a sporting event. ... I'm not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this."
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"Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the Source is whispering to you...you are -we all are-the beloved of the beloved, and in every moment, in every event of your life , the Beloved is whispering to you exactly what you need to hear and know. Who can ever explain this miracle? It simply is."
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"The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions."
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