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When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn read more
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have read more
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.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write read more
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought read more
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they read more
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 read more
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
