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"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."
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"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events."
"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."
"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."
"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."
"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."
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"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
"Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom."
"In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs."
"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."
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