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

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

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

"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."

"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."

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

"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."

"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."

"Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last."
Explore more quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."

"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."

"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."

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

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