"We are not to lead events, but to follow them."
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"We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist."
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"Being put in this situation, where it's myself, Kyle O'Reilly and a Jay Lethal, I think it's the best main event you can have right now in Ring of Honor."
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"What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations."
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"Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events."
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"Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self."
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"Change is not an event, its a process."
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"No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud."
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"Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing."
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"A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event."
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"I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event."
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"Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it."
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"I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure."
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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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"The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it."
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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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"Events are influenced by our very great desires."
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"Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event."
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"It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events."
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"I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates."
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