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• Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

  Madeleine Albright

  Choices, Good Things, Collectives

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• On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life Changing, Friendly, Different

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.39, New World Library

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• A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

  Ivan Allen, Jr.

  Rights, Atlanta, Special

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• I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

  Andrew Dost

  Nice, Thinking, Driving

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• I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Growing Up, Russia, People

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• When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?

  Paul Waldman

  Growing Up, Kids, Adults

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• I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

  R. Kelly

  Song, Party, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open to everything is what makes wonderful things happen. If I don't worry, there's no obstruction and life flows easily. It sounds impractical, but 'Expect nothing; be open to everything' is really all it is.

  Marketa Irglova

  Long, Work Out, Expectations

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• I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.

  Jose Padilha

  Giving, Dimensions, Action

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• Things happen to help you get rid of the parts of yourself that aren't you; to help you be more real and more yourself, not like everyone else; to help you lead a more authentic life; and ultimately to help you discover who you really are.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Being Yourself, Real, Helping

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.22, Harmony

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• It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Everything Happens For A Reason

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• It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.

  Hal Elrod

  Responsibility, Everything Happens For A Reason, Perspective

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 08, 2010

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• If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Events, Fantasy, Enough

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• God has left that for the rest of time and eternity in order to give us something to do in the hereafter. We'll be able to learn more about the past and why things happened, as well as God's logic and purposes and the meaning of it all.

  David Berg

  Past, Order, Giving

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• It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Important, Tables

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2011.

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• I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new friends. I work with talented people. And each project and experience seems to be better than the last. I seem to be topping myself all the time. I think to myself: "It can't get better, it can't get better..." And then something happens that makes me feel like I'm truly richer for the experience.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Teaching, Thinking

  "Waitress - Nathan Fillion interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Real, Psychics

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• Nothing happens until you decide.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Choices, Life Decision, Happens

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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• A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Ignorant, Doe

  "De Divinatione", II. 22, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 259-60,

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• Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Window, Ends

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.55

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• What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Death, Comedian

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• On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.

  Walter Sickert

  One Day, Sitting, Done

  Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert (2006). “Sickert: Paintings and Drawings”, p.91, Yale University Press

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• It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Believe, Responsibility, Numbers

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• Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ethics, Driving, Bigs

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• The more chances you get, the more comfortable you feel. I?m ready to go out there if something happens. I?ll feel comfortable if I am ever called on.

  Doug Flutie

  Comfort, Chance, Ready

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