Great Events Quotes

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  You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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  I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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• It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

  Patricia Moyes

  Interesting, Retrospect, Causes

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way.

  Steven Brust

  Suffering, Events, Needs

  "The Paths of the Dead". Book by Steven Brust, 2003.

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• I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, Events, World

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

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• Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Heart, Law Of Attraction

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• It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Enemy, Events, Rewards

  "The Manipulator" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2004.

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• The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

  Alan Cranston

  Adventure, Ideas, Leader

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• We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Past, Events

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.

  Martin Luther

  Life, Heart, Power

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• In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Writing, Character, Fate

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• Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, Giving, Pressure

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.115, re.press

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• We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end.

  James Hutton

  Nature, Science, Power

  James Hutton (1788*). “Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).”, p.86

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• It feels amazing - really, really great! It was so nice to be out there and be cherished by all the people. It has been a great event, the best you can experience as an athlete. We are very happy with how everything has worked out in the competition. Everything was very good and we're really happy we accomplished our goal.

  Margaretha Sigfridsson

  Nice, Athlete, People

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• One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Independent, Science, Moon

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• The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Interesting, Novelists

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1904). “The Art of Literature (illustrated)”, p.50, Full Moon Publications

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• Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.

  William Whewell

  Art, Science, Discovery

  William Whewell (1856). “Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...”, p.22

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• The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Flower, Passion

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• There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Peace, Eye, Perspective

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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• For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Giving, Events

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.843, Tor Science Fiction

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• The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

  Stefan Zweig

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Stress

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.15, Pushkin Press

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• All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Clever, Opportunity, Men

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• I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

  Ernie Harwell

  Player, Events, Lucky

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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