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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

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As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

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There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

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Places remember events.

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