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"We're more than ready to deliver. When the pressure is on, I think that's when the Ring of Honor roster does the best. Not only the main event, the entire roster feels the pressure and are ready to deliver."
"It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things."
"The field (which is what spirit is, a field of pure potentiality) is a continuum of all possible energy and information states that will subsequently manifest themselves as space-time events."
"There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us."
"Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego."
"The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible"
"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."
"But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist."
"Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball."
"Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole."
"I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari"
"The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events."
"Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event."
"Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events."
"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."
"Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened."
"The great events of the world take place in the brain."
"I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment."
"Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging."
"If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic."
