"No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."
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"History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
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"The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible."
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"I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press."
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"Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term."
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"Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher."
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"Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness."
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"The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event."
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"Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me."
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"A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event."
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"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."
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"Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us."
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"happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events."
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"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
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"We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event."
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"When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it."
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"The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out."
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"To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events."
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