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81 quotesEven a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Children
Gaston Bachelard
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Acting and Actors
Roland Barthes
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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Knowledge
Claude Bernard
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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
Improvement
Arthur Bloch
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Crime and Criminals
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
Patriotism
George Borrow
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
The future
Ray Bradbury
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Failure is an event, never a person.
Failure
William D. Brown
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Business
Warren Buffett
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Scandal
Edmund Burke
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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Causes
Julius Caesar
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Wisdom
Thomas Carlyle
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
History and Historians
Marcus T. Cicero
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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Virtue
Alexander Comfort
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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
Change
John W. Draper
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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
Anger
Tryon Edwards
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Albert Einstein
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Conflict
Albert Einstein
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Humankind
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A stumble may prevent a fall.
Adversity
English Proverb
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Prevention is better than cure.
Prevention
Desiderius Erasmus
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When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
Problems
Henry Ford
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
The future
Anatole France
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Habit
Benjamin Franklin
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun