#events

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ↗

— George Santayana

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. ↗

— George Santayana

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A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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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

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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

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I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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