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I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.' ↗

— Delta Goodrem

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I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence. ↗

— Bob Graham

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If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ↗

— Claude Debussy

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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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