"Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events.""
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"Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history."
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"You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome."
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"If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet."
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"Failure is an event, it is not a person."
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"I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope."
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"I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington."
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"But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time."
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"The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago"
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"Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning."
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"It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility."
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"To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one’s own arrival and will survive one’s own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death."
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"I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague."
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"The act is judged of by the event."
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"Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death."
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"Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths."
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"He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once."
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"If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago."
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"Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today."
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"All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common."
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