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«Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.»
«If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.»
Author: James Hillman
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an event
«Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?»
«A lawsuit is not an event for the sprinter.»
«A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.»
Author: Robert Purvis
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Graduation
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«It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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acceleration, analyze, an event, deliberate, describes, distortion, on time, operate, operate on, partake, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, referent, referents, take pride
«Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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an event, duration, eternal life, event, life eternal, temporal, timelessness
«An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.»
«A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.»
«A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Libraries
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affection, an event, enduring, event, library, memorials, monument, preservation, public libraries, public library, respected, revolutions, survives, The Monument, trustiest, trusty, wars
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