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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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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What we're trying to do is set the bar a little bit higher. This has been a very contentious, very emotional (issue).
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
