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• I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.

  Tom Dunne

  Soccer, New Year, Football

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• Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing history is writing the soul of the past… so that the present generation may learn from past mistakes, be inspired by their ancestor’s sacrifices, and take responsibility for the future.

  Epifanio de los Santos

  Mistake, Struggle, Eye

  "Silent storms: inspiring lives of 101 great Filipinos". Book by Fernando A. Bernardo, p. 37 - 38, 2000.

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• Fittings are boring, but it's fun when you get to wear something new and go to a new event. I have a massive say in what I wear - I work really closely with my stylist.

  Conor Maynard

  Fun, Stylist, Boring

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

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• Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation.

  Jan Struther

  Running, Feelings, Mind

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.88, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Years, Interesting

  Miscellanies, Aesthetic and Literary

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• Alex Riley and I will be driving from live event to live event and if Ke$ha comes on it is blasted throughout the entire car and we are singing at the top of our lungs. So if you ever see A-Ry and me in a car you might catch us in an embarrassing moment of two 30-year-old grown men screaming 'You know we're Superstars.' We are who we are. DJ turn it up up up.

  The Miz

  Men, Wwe, Two

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• The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That's why they hate politicians so much, because politicians have direct power and they do not.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Hate, Media, Politics

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• We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

  Charles Rangel

  New Orleans, Giving, Tragedy

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• He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual's armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world's chaos and warfare.

  Gay Talese

  Pain, Block, Frustration

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• The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.

  George Carlin

  Wings, Issues, Together

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• No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted to resuscitate such men by my own joyousness or luminosity.When I break glasses in a night club, as the Russians do, when my unconscious breaks out in wild rebellions, it is against life which has crippled these idealistic, romantic men. I respect these men, cold, pure, faithful, devoted, moral, delicate, sensitive, and unequal to life, more than I respect the tough-minded ones who return three blows to one received, who kill those who hurt them.

  Anais Nin

  Hurt, Blow, Night

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• Here is good news to those to whom enthusiasm does not come naturally: It can be cultivated. At first, you must consciously put your eyes, your voice, your spirit-in a word, yourself-into your appreciation of people and events and things. Do this around your home, at your work, and in your social contacts, and you will be surprised at how quickly it will become second nature. You will find yourself living in a more gracious and enthusiastic world, for your enthusiasm will be reflected back to you from the people to whom you give it.

  David Dunn

  Appreciation, Home, Eye

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• Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when we respond with hatred. In fact, the opposite occurs: When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hurt, Powerful, Pain

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• Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

  George Gissing

  Way, Calamity, Persistent

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.90, The Floating Press

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• When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Feet, Shoes

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• The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Truth, Law

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Fate, Waiting, Chance

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Revolution is not an event! It's a process

  Professor Griff

  Revolution, Process

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• The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Real, Purpose, World

  Speech at the Mormon Tabernacle, delivered 26 September 1963, Salt Lake City, Utah

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• First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hate, Believe, Useless

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Gone, World, Eternity

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• Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dark, Riding, Half

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.171, Library of America

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• Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

  Bertrand Russell

  Political, Desire, Causes

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.447, Routledge

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• Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Passionate, World, Protest

  "Liberty, Justice, and Freedom of Information for All" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• Will you be slack, brethren, and let the evil come upon us, when we forewarn you of the future events that are coming;... We are telling of what the prophets have said-of what the Lord has said to Joseph. Wake up now, wake up, O Israel, and lay up your grain and your stores. I tell you that there is trouble coming upon the world.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Israel, Evil, Wake Up

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