Epictetus Quotes
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
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And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
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When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist.
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Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact.
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You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.
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All actresses, including me, want to look great on screen.
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If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.
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Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
