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• As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Truth, Opposites, Stories

  "La Nausée (Nausea)". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1949.

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• I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.

  John Dos Passos

  Marriage, Crazy, Mean

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• Love's the only thing I've thought of or read about since I was knee-high. That's what I always dreamed of, of meeting somebody and falling in love. And when that remarkable thing happened, I was going to recite poetry to her for hours about how her heart's an angel's wing and her hair the strings of a heavenly harp. Instead I got drunk and hollered at her and called her a harpy.

  Ben Hecht

  Love, Fall, Heart

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• Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Responsibility, Men, Cities

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.81, Ballantine Books

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• Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

  Herodotus

  Learning, Men, Trying

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• One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

  Heraclitus

  War, Justice, Common

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• You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [...] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.

  Bill Murray

  Monday, Over You, Rolling

  "With Bill Murray, Just Take the Trip". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.

  Luis Palau

  Believe, Our Generation, Generations

  Luis Palau (1986). “So You Want to Grow”

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• Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Money, Work

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.9, Penguin

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• When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

  Mason Cooley

  Heart, Desire, Trying

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• It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.

  Janet Reno

  Trust, Courage, Beach

  "Janet Reno's Choice" by Lincoln Caplan, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 1994.

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• There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don't know how to use it.

  Hiroaki Aoki

  People, Lucky, Use

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• Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.

  Mary Blakely

  Baseball, Kids, Boys

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• maturity ... is letting things happen.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Acceptance, Maturity, Letting Things Happen

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• Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Liberty, Danger, Restriction

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• The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?

  Sallust

  Stars, Father, Taken

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• You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again - you see it all the time - because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status.

  Esther Hicks

  Empires, Vibrations, Financial

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• The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

  Katharine Tynan

  Landmarks, Happens

  Katharine Tynan (1919). “The Years of the Shadow”

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• These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing happens without communication, treatment based on evidence of outcome, and what used to be called a good bedside manner.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Communication, Doctors

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.122, A&C Black

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• I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.

  Victoria Gray Adams

  Moving, Order, Civil Rights

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• My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

  Philip Yancey

  Life, Mother, Thinking

  "Why was I spared from Amtrak Train 188's crash?". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.cnn.com. May 22, 2015.

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• But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.

  Banesh Hoffmann

  Journey, Law, Statistics

  Banesh Hoffmann (2012). “About Vectors”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I think everything happens for a reason, so there is no such thing as fail.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason, Failing

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• Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting
  your fate entirely to someone else. It's about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a
  warm bath. It's about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason, Alternatives

  Lauren Barnholdt (2011). “Watch Me”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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