"If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event."
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"I did a Moonlighting episode because I was friends with Whoopi [Goldberg, who guest-starred in the same episode], and she asked me to do it and I did it. But yeah, that was my first regular on a series, and it's because I'd met Brooke Shields a number of years earlier at a charity event."
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"Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored."
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"The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end...we are much more strategic about how we source now."
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"The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance."
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"Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth."
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"The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe."
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"When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings."
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"There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances."
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"Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect."
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"Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided."
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"Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us."
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"6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit."
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