"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."
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"A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool."
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"The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event."
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"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it."
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"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes."
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"Change is a process not an event."
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"Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment."
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"Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events."
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"In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid."
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"In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words."
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"We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable."
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"I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death."
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"Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful."
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"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."
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"A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete."
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"There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered."
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"The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances."
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"Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence."
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"Places remember events."
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"Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence."
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