#events

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes. ↗

— John T. Flynn

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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

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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. ↗

— Og Mandino

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