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Life happens at the level of events, not words. - Alfred Adler Great events have sent before them their announcements. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. - William Cowper What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. - Epictetus Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. - Wilhelm von Humboldt Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. - Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria)
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