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• Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Memories, Taken, Important

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• I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

  Stendhal

  Perfection, Mind, Action

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 1), 1822.

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• The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that shape the stories of our lives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Character, Choices, Soul

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.51, Harmony

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• How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Work, Simple, Years

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• The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

  Charles Kennedy

  Eye, Unique, Holocaust

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• When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

  Richard Mitchell

  Society, Wonder, Profit

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• The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Needed

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• This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Real, Past, Identity

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.578, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

  Tony Blair

  Roots, Reform, Use

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• There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Analysis, Action

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Fields, Behavior

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• Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.

  Pope John Paul II

  Israel, Action, Reason

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”

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• You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

  Michael Beckwith

  Life, Way, Cosmic

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• The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

  Queen Victoria

  Powerful, Voice, Touching

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• It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.

  Alain de Botton

  Life, Dust, Space

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• The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Age, Fiction

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.185

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• Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

  Fernand Braudel

  Reason, Social, Form

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• The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.

  Ben Kingsley

  Numbers, Choices, Rehearsal

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• The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

  Martin Seligman

  Optimistic, Opposites, Style

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.92, Vintage

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• The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Memories, Real, Important Events

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• There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

  William McIlvanney

  Laughter, People, Laughing

  1985 The BigMan, ch.1.

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• What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

  Dorothee Solle

  Waiting, Important, Possibility

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• Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture.

  Robert Holden

  Avid, Ego, Littles

  Robert Holden (2006). “Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life”

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• Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

  James Lovelock

  Stars, Fall, Long Ago

  "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth". Book by James Lovelock, 1979.

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• A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

  Christopher Darden

  Real, Justice, Cases

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