"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."

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"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."

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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

Events, Mistakes, Order

"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

Events, Plants, Trees, Words

"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

Events, Investigation, Reality

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

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

Events, News, Weather

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

John Burns, English Activist

Events, Will

"Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue."

Peter Ackroyd, British Author

Events, Killing, Will

"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

Events, Nerves, Quiet, Trifles

"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."

Elliott Erwitt, French Photographer

Events, Now, Weddings

"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."

Cleopatra, Egyptian Royalty

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"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig."

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