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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.
Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.
I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.
No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.
There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.
I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.
While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.
We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.
Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.
"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.
Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.
Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)
We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.
Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them