Quotes with penny-events

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  • Agnes Smedley For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Robert Frost Great events yield all but imperceptible effects.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Meynell Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • John Galsworthy Headlines twice the size of the events.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Napoleon History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Ben Bernanke Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Barack Obama I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
    Speech (1 June 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride would never have allowed me to.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Alfred de Vigny I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Anne Tyler I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Becki Newton I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Charles A. Garfield I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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