Quotes with penny-events

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  • Walter Savage Landor Consult duty not events.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Marquis de Sade Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Samuel Johnson Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alan Cohen Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Thomas Hardy Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Alanis Morissette Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • William James Events are influenced by our very great desires.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Events cast long shadows before.
    One such event would be a war.
    But how are shadows to be seen
    When total darkness fills the screen?
    Poems, 1913-1956 Alphabet [Alfabet] from Five Childrens Songs (1934
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Titus Livy Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • W. Clement Stone Events tend to recur in cycles...
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Amelia Barr Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Euripides Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Barry Malzberg Events, I say to the Captain, events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
    Beyond Apollo Ch. 60
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  • Adrienne Rich Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Aristophanes Evil events from evil causes spring.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • C. Wright Mills Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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