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

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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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"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."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

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"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

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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."

Teresa de Lauretis, Italian Author

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"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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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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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

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"The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions."

Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German Philosopher

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"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."

Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakian Leader

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"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."

Voice

"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

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."

Time

"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."

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

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"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

"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."

God

"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."

Media

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

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