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"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."

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

"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."

"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."

"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."

"I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin."

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

"We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel."
Explore more quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."

"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."

"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."

"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."

"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."

"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."

"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."
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