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• Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

  Alan Guth

  Average, Space, Realizing

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• You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.

  Ian Rush

  Dream, Bigs, Happens

  "Liverpool’s Ian Rush: India Needs a Soccer Hero". Interview with Will Davies, blogs.wsj.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.

  Megan Smith

  Remembers Everything, Everything Happens For A Reason, Looks

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• I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.

  Terrell Owens

  Guy, May, Figures

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• I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened.

  Lena Dunham

  Memories, Night, Essence

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.176, Random House

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• God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service.  They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs.  But they are the army that makes things happen.  To them devotion is its own reward.  For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Teacher, Book, Army

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• A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Funny Things, People

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• Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Unique, Quiet Moments, Space

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• Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation.

  Jan Struther

  Running, Feelings, Mind

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.88, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself

  Michael Sam

  Being Yourself, Great Things, Happens

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• When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Weed, Garden, Evil

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• This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.

  Noah Cicero

  Views, Class, White

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• When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.

  Don Hewitt

  Running, Hands, Cnn

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• The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

  Terry Brooks

  Character, Four, Want

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• Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

  Deep Roy

  Inspiration, Being Positive, Good Things

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• In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

  Juliana Hatfield

  World, Contemplating, Happens

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• I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Thinking, Have Faith, Happens

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• I'm a believer of destiny and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Children, Believe, Destiny

  "Life In A... Metro - Shilpa Shetty interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk. May 7, 2007.

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• Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

  Euripides

  Men, Events, Permission

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• There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Book, Plot, Triggers

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• You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, Ideas, Citizens

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• All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

  Pat Conroy

  Life, Happens, Meaningless

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• To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Men, Names

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• Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

  Maimonides

  Views, Evil, Judgement

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.301, Behrman House, Inc

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• In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Dream, Wish, Consciousness

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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