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Bruce Jackson

"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."

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"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."

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"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"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."

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

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