"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."

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"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

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"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."

Jane Roberts, American Author

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"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

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"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

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"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."

Teresa de Lauretis, Italian Author

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"For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."

Agnes Smedley, American Journalist

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"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!"

Thomas B. Macaulay, English Historian

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"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

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"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me."

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"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

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"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."

"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."

"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."

"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."

"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."

"For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."

"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."

"Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!"

"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."

"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

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"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

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"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."

"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me."

"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."