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The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
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I’m Armenian, and April 24th was another commemoration of the genocide of Armenia people by Turkey. The perpetrator never admitted the crime.… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth,… — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
Football was just the playing I enjoyed at first, but the longer you're playing the more it becomes a social event. You… — Hope Powell Copy Share Image
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The cool thing is, when we first did our joint Ring Of Honour-New Japanies Wrestlers, I think that definitely existed. I think… — Adam Cole Copy Share Image
You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership,… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience.… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in… — Steven Runciman Copy Share Image
I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down.… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
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An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
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