#events

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it. ↗

— Fran Drescher

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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. ↗

— John Dryden

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If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. ↗

— John Thorn

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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. ↗

— Will Durant

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We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ↗

— Andre Gide

#like #memory #nothing #prevents