"All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences."
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"If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them."
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"First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless."
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"Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion; and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents."
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"Change management is kind of a weird concept to me. We can' t control events any more than we can control the weather. But we control how we deal with it and we can control the opportunities that these moments of change create."
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"To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events."
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"The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event."
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"The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours."
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"As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights."
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"I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees."
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"I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun."
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"I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine."
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"Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself."
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"there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit."
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"To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing."
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"At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party."
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"One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life."
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"Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life."
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"I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes."
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"Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?"
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