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"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."
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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
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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."
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"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."
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"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."
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"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
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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."
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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."
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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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"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
Heroism
"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
Man
"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."
Knowledge
"Too fair to worship, too divine to love."
Love
"I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."
Beauty
"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
Creativity
"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
History
"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
History
"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
Nature
"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."
Life
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