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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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
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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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Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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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 wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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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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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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Minds ripen at very different ages.
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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 we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.
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I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the wishbone.
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It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
