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

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

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"I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler."

Wilford Brimley, American Actor

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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."

John Thorn, American Historian

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"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events."

Will McDonough, American Writer

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"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."

Dan Rather, American Journalist

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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."

Paul Berg, American Scientist

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

John Lothrop Motley, American Historian

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"If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them."

H. P. Blavatsky, Russian Philosopher

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"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."

Henri Bergson, French Scientist

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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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"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart."

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"Running along the bank was a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and looking worriedly at a clock. Appearing and disappearing at various points on both banks was a dark blue British police telephone booth, out of which a perplexed-looking man holding a screwdriver would periodically emerge. A group of dwarf bandits could be seen disappearing into a hole in the sky. "Time travelers," said Nobodaddy in a voice of gentle disgust. "They're everywhere these days."

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"Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths."

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"I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me."

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"Realism can break a writer's heart."

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"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame."

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"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."

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"As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too."

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"There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost."

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"A book is not completed till it's read."

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