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• The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Past, Our World, Notion

  Interview with Cheryl Morgan, strangehorizons.com. November 29, 2004.

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• An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Communication, Unusual Things, Years

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• Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

  Theodore Levitt

  Imagination, Progress, Make Things Happen

  Theodore Levitt (1986). “Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

  Marianne Williamson

  Letting Go, Attachment, Surrender

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad things happened we could erase them, or somehow make them sweet.

  Sue Halpern

  Sweet, Memories, People

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• Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Leader, May, Common

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom, Robert C. Larson (1988). “The best of Ted Engstrom on personal excellence and leadership”, Here's Life Pub

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• Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

  Diane von Furstenberg (2015). “The Woman I Wanted to Be”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.

  Barbara Sher

  Eye, Hands, Focus

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• I came to filmmaking as an actor looking for great characters and great opportunities, both of which are kind of hard to come by. It turns out I really love the process. And, it's exciting to be able to take my career by the reigns and make things happen for myself. Hopefully, in doing so, more opportunities will become available to me.

  Katie Aselton

  Character, Opportunity, Careers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If anyone chooses to ignore the message or the messenger, they do so at their own risk. Believe it or not, there are many more people out there that understand what I am trying to do than society wants to admit. The way I live my life represents a much bigger part of America than anyone would care to imagine

  Marilyn Manson

  Believe, America, People

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• Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed.

  Seth Klarman

  Quality, Pressure, Dip

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• I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Technology, Discovery, Space

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.92, Basic Books

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• There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

  Auberon Waugh

  People, World, Sacred

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.

  Jon Miller

  Baseball, Team, Mean

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• Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.

  Miguel Cotto

  Destiny, Careers, Together

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• My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Ego, Enlightenment

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• Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. Each of us is responsible for what happens in our lives. When good things happen, we take ownership, but when bad things happen we often don't take responsibility. There are no mistakes or accidents. Consciousness is everything and all things begin with a thought. We are responsible for our own fate. We reap what we sow, we get what we give and we pull in what we put out.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jobs, Mistake, Responsibility

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• I have to have an emergency phone number in case anything happens

  Harry Winston

  Phones, Numbers, Emergencies

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• It's our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.

  Jim Carrey

  Intention, Planets, Accomplished

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• Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.

  Shawn Johnson

  Mom, Giving Up, Gymnastics

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• This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

  Terence McKenna

  Voice, People, Magic

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• The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.

  Sam Shepard

  Light, Theatre, Plot

  Sam Shepard (1984). “Fool for Love and Other Plays”, Bantam Books

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• I always try to make my things happen.

  Heidi Klum

  Trying, Happens

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• Wishing is good for us.
  Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations
  All drive us forward,
  Impel us to make things happen.
  They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
  Our wishes come straight from our core,
  And they are loaded with vital information
  About who we are and who we can become.
  Keeping track of our wishes
  Helps us tap into the energy
  That propels us to go after our happiness.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Air, Track, Wish

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “The Wish List”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

  Dogen

  Buddhism, Live By, Letting Things Happen

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