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«Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us»
«Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.»
«Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.»
«Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| About:
Events,
Expectation,
Life
| Keywords:
constructed, event, expectation, match
«Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well»
«No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Events,
History,
War
| Keywords:
American history, misunderstood, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Events
| Keywords:
epoch-making, epoch, epochs, produced, revolutionaries, revolutionary, spoken, spoken word
«A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Events,
Miracles,
Nature
| Keywords:
ace, aces, Four Aces, Order of, The Order, unaccountable
«Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Events
| Keywords:
announce, announces, announcing, arouse, arousing, awake, Bad News, Good News, immediately, instant, In the press, news, presses, press on
«Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him»
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