"One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself."
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"There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event."
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"We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create."
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"To turn events into ideas is the function of literature."
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"The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it."
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"Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate."
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"Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain."
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"Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them."
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"Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual."
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"This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong."
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"Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived."
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"It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person."
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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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"By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events."
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"The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or events. Underneath the surface appearance, all things are interconnected, are part of the totality of the cosmos that has brought about the form that this moment takes."
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"If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all."
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"One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television."
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"The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us."
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"The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you."
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"Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people."
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