"Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event."
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"When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves."
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"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls."
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"We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise."
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"In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite."
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"Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience."
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"The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history."
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"No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed."
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"The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves."
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"Even a fool is wise after an event."
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"We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience."
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"Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event."
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"Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story."
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"God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect."
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"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
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"If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed."
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"The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better."
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"Events bring you small joy, while # existence brings you bliss."
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"In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses."
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"We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery."
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