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Human Events
«On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.»
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
(Novelist)
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abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounds, antiquities, aspect, assumes, effects, Human Events, incident, incidents, soonest, The Incident, travelled
«In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life /subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality /no human being's education can have a safe foundation.»
Author: Phyllis Bottome
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Human Events, include, rudimentary, safe sex, Sex education, stir, subjects, sufficiently, These Three
«Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
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alter, commotion, disappointed, disappointment, doubtful, Human Events, miseries, restless, stir, unravel, unraveled, unravels
«As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to any ordinary occurren»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
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Miracles
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explained, Human Events, Human Relations, immutable, intelligible, natural causes, natural order, preserves, reference, reference to, relation to
«To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| About:
Education
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engaged, exposed, Human Events, informed, vulnerably
«I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.»
«If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Politics,
Science
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human action, Human Events, imperative, penetrate, surprising
«ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten.When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. --Oliver Cromwell»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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