"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

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"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

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"Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue."

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"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

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"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."

John Berger, English Artist

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"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."

David Blunkett, British Politician

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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

John Burns, English Activist

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"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."

Richard Cobden, British Businessman

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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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"It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence."

John Dryden, English Poet

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"The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell."

"The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival."

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"It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful."

"False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news."

"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

"Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth."

"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."

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"Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue."

"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."

"I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year."

"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."

"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."

"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."

"It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence."