"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

Events, Journey, Memories, Past

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"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

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

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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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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"The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions."

Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist

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"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German Philosopher

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"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

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