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Letter "E" » Events
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«There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.»
«The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.»
Author: Eudora Welty
(Novelist, Writer)
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Events
| Keywords:
continuous, Order The, revelation, sequence, significance, The Sequence, thread
«The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Events,
Miracles
| Keywords:
absurdity, all ages, detect, detected, forged, instances, propensity, Prophecies, sufficiently, supernatural
«Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.»
«There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Events,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
events, No Place to Go, places, steps, unpleasant
«The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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Events
| Keywords:
proclaiming, reform, The Voice
«There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Events
| Keywords:
altering, assume, invention, obligation, participated, participating, presumption, presumptions
«There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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Events
| Keywords:
dropping, fourteen, glove, magnifies, scales, The Empire, weighs
«Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Environment,
Events,
Time
| Keywords:
electric light, separating, simultaneous, speed of light
«To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...»
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