Important Events Quotes - Page 2

• In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Numbers, Years

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• In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Jesus, Stories, Resurrection

  William Lyon Phelps (1925). “Human Nature and the Gospel”

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• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Printing, Invention, Humans

  "Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as we think". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Sinai

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.

  Toby Hemenway

  Animal, Rocks, Interesting

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• Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.

  Alfred Nobel

  Life, Strong, Science

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• It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

  Sophia Loren

  Beautiful, Winning, Careers

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.

  Richard Bach

  Forget Everything, Gone, Remember

  An Interview with Richard Bach by Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• First and foremost, prayer is so helpful. But I think that you need to face your fears head on. Don't avoid them or say that you're not scared. Acknowledge it and be honest about it. It's normal to get nervous about a big game or to get nervous about an important event in your life.

  Matt Cullen

  Prayer, Thinking, Games

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• In war, important events result from trivial causes.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Causes, Results

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• Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

  Voltaire

  Atheism, Church, Revolution

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