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

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

Events, Past

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

Henry Reed, English Writer

Events, Sense

"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."

John Lothrop Motley, American Historian

Events, Leading

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

John Burns, English Activist

Events, Will

"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

Events, Nerves, Quiet, Trifles

"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."

Collin C. Peterson, American Politician

Events,

"But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems."

Paul Berg, American Scientist

Events, Plants

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

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Events, Fiction, Intimacy

"It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events."

Dario Fo, Italian Playwright

Events, Limits, Open, Talk

"Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today."

Walther Bothe, German Physicist

Events, First, Today

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"It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed."

People

"Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage."

Courage

"I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing."

Writing

"You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect."

People

"There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it."

People

"Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake."

Art

"It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research."

Fun

"I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations."

People

"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."

Events