Quotes with events

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  • William James Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Angela Davis It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Plato It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • John Dryden It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Francis Bacon It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara Sher It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Anthony Robbins It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Archibald MacLeish Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Brandi Chastain Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Edward Hoagland Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events .
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • David Gemmell Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Vaclav Havel None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Mark Twain Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Olson Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • John W. Draper Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
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  • Horace Walpole Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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