George W. Bush Quotes, September 11 Quotes, Events Quotes

... 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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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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

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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

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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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The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

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Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

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