Quotes with event

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  • Salman Rushdie The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Charles Darwin The voyage of the "Beagle" has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career.
    The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1887)
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Horace Walpole The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli There is definitely a comeback of the idea of dressing well every day. Nowadays, suits can be worn for many occasions - to work or to school, to a dinner party or red carpet event.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Ronald Laing There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Andrew Jackson There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Henri Cartier-Bresson To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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  • Carl Lewis To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bob Graham Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Topology provides the synergetic means of ascertaining the values of any system of experiences. Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Benigno Aquino III We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bela Karolyi What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Brad Katsuyama When we had the 'flash crash' in 2010, where the price of some stocks briefly fell to zero, high-frequency trading played a big role in that event.
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  • Bliss Carman Whether it be to failure or success; the first need of being is endurance - to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Benjamin Watson White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Brian Tracy Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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