Quotes with penny-events

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  • André Maurois If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Herman Melville If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bobby Orr If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Francis Bacon In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Calvin Trillin In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman In the midst of events there is no perspective.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Julius Caesar In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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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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