"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."
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"To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds."
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"After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda."
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"I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution."
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"It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired."
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"There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago."
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"Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events."
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"Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda."
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"What's happening in the world is a natural course of events."
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"There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you."
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"The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs."
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"Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet."
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"I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband."
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"I am still been pumped to train and get myself ready for the biggest events."
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"For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world."
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"Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life."
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"Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age."
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"I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway."
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"Duty is ours and events are God's."
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"Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right."
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