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“Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it.”
Winston Churchill
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well”
Epictetus
“The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.”
C.S. Lewis
“If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Events tend to recur in cycles...”
W. Clement Stone
“To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“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.”
Ernest Hemingway
“We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries”
Will Durant
“That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything”
William Shakespeare
“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”
Stephen Hawking
