"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."

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"Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!"

Thomas B. Macaulay, English Historian

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

Henry Reed, English Writer

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"There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened."

Madeleine Stowe, American Actress

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"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."

Kelly Jones, Welsh Musician

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"I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham."

Pat Summerall, American Celebrity

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"By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve."

Charles Francis Richter, American Scientist

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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."

Lanford Wilson, American Playwright

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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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"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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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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"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."

Dying

"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."

Being

"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."

Death

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."

Thought

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

Autobiography

"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

Home

"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."

Experience

"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."

Photography

"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."

Life

"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."

Nature