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• Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  World, Firsts, First Time

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• One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Attitude, Practice, Strange

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• Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

  Kobo Abe

  Writing, Happens

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• A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

  Nate Silver

  Happens

  "NATE SILVER TO JON STEWART: 'People Are Too Hyper About The Polls'" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2012.

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• Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

  Peter Mayle

  Simple, Journey, Lucky

  "Me and my travels". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2006.

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• I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

  Maria Semple

  Character, Knowing, Giving

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• Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

  D. H. Lawrence

  Boys, Somewhere Else, Ideas

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• We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Horrible, Happens

  Daniel Handler (2012). “The Basic Eight”, p.226, Allison & Busby

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• Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Dream, Depressing, Crazy

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• Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

  David Perlmutter

  Track, Brain, Survival

  "Human Memory: Why Bad Memories Stick" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

  Ben Goldacre

  Together, Facts, Pieces

  "There's a wealth of data out there - why not let us use it?" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Meeting together, forming SS501 is the best thing happened in my life.

  Heo Young-saeng

  Together, Meetings, Best Things

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• People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Window Dressing, Make Things Happen

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• I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

  Shane Carruth

  Reality, Want, Reason

  "Shane Carruth Reveals The Mysteries Of ‘Upstream Color’". Interview with Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. April 8, 2013.

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• You think to yourself, “If one drink feels really good and two feels really, really good, a hundred ought to feel fantastic.” As sane people know, it doesn't work that way. A hundred drinks feels terrible. Bad things happen. But the addict keeps at it, thinking at some point it's going to get good again The point is to not feel what you're feeling. The problem is, you become someone you never thought you would become, and you have no idea how you got there.

  Kim Severson

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Kim Severson (2010). “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life”, p.13, Penguin

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• Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Prayer, Forget

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• There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

  James Hilton

  All Things, Happens, Comfortable

  James Hilton (2016). “LOST HORIZON - The Legend of Shangri-La: Adventure Classic”, p.49, e-artnow

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• Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature.... Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being, systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.

  Hugh Ross

  Intelligent, Self, Organization

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• I'm not naive, I know that bad things happen, but most people do the right thing most of the time. Most people wake up and they try to do what's right for their relationships, whether it's marriage or family. They try to do what's right for their job. They try to make a better world for those around them, and that's what I want to write about.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Writing, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm inspired by other people's creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it's just wanting to know how something works.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Creativity, People, Mind

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• We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  War, Mean, Epidemics

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• People talk about things happening and it being "unbelievable," and it's exactly the reverse. It's really believable, but we are so conditioned to believe that these kinds of things are just coincidences, that they're just things that show up arbitrarily in our lives, when the fact is that all of us have this kind of guidance available to us.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, People, Facts

  "I Can See Clearly Now". Interview with Reid Tracy, www.aquarianonline.com. March 28, 2014.

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• I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Life Changing, Thinking

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• You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

  Stephen Fry

  Weather, Annoyed, Pissed Off

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Everything Happens For A Reason, Focus

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