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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?"

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences."

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Tracy Austin Tennis Player
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"By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events."

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Seth Musician
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"For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action."

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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
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"Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it."

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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
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"[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself."

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