#events

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ↗

— Peter Cooper

#acts #boast #events #far #history

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#end #first #getting #in the end #kills

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#current #current events #events #good #i

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#become #boring #events #life #pompous

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#happening #once #prevents #time

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

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Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#after #capital #day #earned #election

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me. ↗

— Hans Frank

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The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events. ↗

— Hans Frank

#behave #behaved #events #groups #more

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives. ↗

— David Frum

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