"Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it."
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"I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events."
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"Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?"
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"What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?"
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"What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events."
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"Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world."
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"Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world."
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"Nothing happens to man without the permission of God."
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"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."
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"It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written."
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"For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us."
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"It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events."
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"Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner."
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"A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history."
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"... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation."
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"American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic. . . . The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event."
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"it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact."
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"There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life."
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"Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself."
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"There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events."
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