Events Quotes — Page 37

Science Fiction Writer

“It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.”

Events Form Fool

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George Washington

Military Leader, Politician

“[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.”

Events Constitution Adoption

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Gore Vidal

Writer, Essayist, Playwright

“World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.”

World Events

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Gunter Brus

Artist

“My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.”

Body Events

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.”

Events Miracle My Friends

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening with its consequences, and constructing a rational analysis of it without being able to verbalize it adequately in anything like its full complexity.”

Thinking Events Analysis

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Leonardo da Vinci

Artist, Scientist, Inventor

“All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.”

Events Gestures Bystanders

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Kenneth Franklin

Author

“Vannevar Bush has said that there is no more thrilling experience for a man than to be able to state that he has learned something no other person in the world has ever known before him. … I have been lucky enough to be included in such an event.”

Men Events Lucky

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”

Events History Shadow

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”

Moving Events News

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Lewis Carroll

Author, Mathematician

“First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.”

Believe Hate Events

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Lewis Mumford

Philosopher, Author

“Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion; and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents.”

Fashion Events Fake

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