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• Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.

  Vera Nazarian

  Profound, Once Upon A Time, Stories

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• A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.

  Garry Disher

  True Life, Library, World

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• Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.

  Ava DuVernay

  Cancer, Heart, People

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• My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

  David Pogue

  Technology, Self, Magic

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• Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.

  E. M. Forster

  Pain, Book, Interesting

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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• When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn’t sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can’t see.

  Ruben Papian

  Spiritual, Yes You Can, Long

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• You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.

  Joel Osteen

  Pain, Depth, May

  Twitter post from May 18, 2015

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• Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

  Bill Vaughan

  Banking, Grew, Happens

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• Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

  Emily Blunt

  Way, Should, Persons

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• Its a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  Eason Jordan

  War, Terrible, Happens

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• Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Creativity, Keys, Problem

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• Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect.

  John Addison

  Action, Neglect, Good Things

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• You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart's personal lemon zester.

  David Letterman

  Circles, Korea, Evil

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• I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

  Philip Yancey

  Divorce, Simple, Opposites

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  War, Men, Soul

  "Peace of Soul". Book by Fulton J. Sheen. Chapter 1, p. 1, 1949.

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• I think for me, what I'm doing on set is I'm watching things happen as an audience member and trying to just look at, what's the image we're photographing, how will that advance the story and what will the next image be.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about.

  Nas

  Art, Hands, Essence

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.

  Tony Robbins

  Pain, Reading, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Evil, World, Happens

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• There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving, People, Three

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• It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

  Cesare Pavese

  Fate, Destiny, Happened

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.345, Routledge

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• The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

  Rex Stout

  Stories, Incredibles, Ends

  " Invitation to Learning" with Jacques Barzun and Elmer Davis; transcript in "The New Invitation to Learning: The Essence of the Great Books of All Times", book by Van Doren (1942), page 246, January 1942.

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• We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

  Clay Aiken

  Law, Numbers, Issues

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• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with 'motive' or 'impulse', but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity.

  J. L. Austin

  Latin, Simplicity, Done

  "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, www.ditext.com. 1956.

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• The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Failure, Mean, Acceptance

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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