"This dress code should be mandatory for most events."
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"You cannot penetrate events with reportage."
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"The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being."
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"We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making."
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"Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside."
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"Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred."
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"The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event."
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"Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible."
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"What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance."
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"When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like."
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"Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars."
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"One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage."
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"The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life."
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"When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone."
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"Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation."
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"Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine."
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"There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events."
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"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
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"It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit."
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"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell."
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