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• Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

  David Shields

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Stories, Want

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. So you asked, ‘When things get really, really difficult in your life, what keeps you going?’ For me, it’s always that the most difficult moments in my life, the moments in which I believe I’ve completely failed or hit bottom, I can actually directly link them to something later that is either a true success or a dream come true. So, I do believe that if you can maintain that everything happens for a reason, you can find the strength and the lesson in those difficult moments and grow stronger.

  Troian Bellisario

  Dream, Believe, Everything Happens For A Reason

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• I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

  Rita Wilson

  Singing, Wanted, Know How

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.

  Gene Weingarten

  Believe, People, Monsters

  Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

  Michael C. Hall

  Mother, Trying, Survivor

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• Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It’s that fundamental!

  Ben Feldman

  Fundamentals, Earth, Happens

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• Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

  Shawn Johnson

  Mom, Everything Happens For A Reason, Littles

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• There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

  Coretta Scott King

  Men, Historical, Needs

  "My Life with Martin Luther King Jr." (Revised Edition) by Coretta Scott King, 1969/1993.

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• One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Writing, Two

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• What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

  Jennifer McMahon

  What If, Magic, Special

  Jennifer McMahon (2011). “Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Blessed, Would Be, Doing Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Opposites, Wonder, Said

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• Things don't just happen; things happen just.

  Jim Rohn

  Happens

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• There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.

  John Ensign

  Past, Office, People

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• You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

  Martin Landau

  Regret, Looks, Stuff

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• A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.

  Rod Milburn

  Track, Goes On, Familiar

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• Why should anything happen when everything has happened?

  Julian Barnes

  Should, Happened, Happens

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• There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, People, Watches

  Herman Cain (2011). “This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Something happens because something happens because something happens

  Jan Gehl

  Happens

  Jan Gehl (2011). “Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space”, p.75, Island Press

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• But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

  Studs Terkel

  Realizing, Excited, Active

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

  William A. Niskanen

  Jobs, Loss, Government

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• Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Law, Secret, Shadow

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• Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

  Herodotus

  Time, History, Eternity

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• Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

  P. T. Barnum

  Judging, Publicity, Terrible

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• If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Happiness, Powerful, Unhappy Person

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.62, Penguin

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