"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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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."

Lanford Wilson, American Playwright

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"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."

Elliott Erwitt, French Photographer

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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

Events, Thinking

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."

John H. Speke, British Explorer

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"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."

Henry Reed, English Writer

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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Events,

"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."

Enya, Irish Musician

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"Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents."

Edward Hoagland, American Author

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"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."

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"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."

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"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."

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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."

"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."

"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."

"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."

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

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."

"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."

"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."

"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."

"Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents."

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"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."

"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."

"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."

"I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world."

"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."

"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."

"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."

"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."