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“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

“An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.”

May Long Happens Events Chains Significance Overwhelming Colossal

Book:100%: The Story of a Patriot

Source: 100%: The Story of a Patriot

“In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as it appears, in a cheerful spirit. This very attempt to blot out forever the hopes of an enslaved people may be one necessary link in the chain of events preparatory to the downfall and complete overthrow of the whole slave system.”

People Should May Whole Spirit Decision Views Forever Events Slave Point Of View Chains Links Cheerful Monstrous Downfall Abolitionist Chain Of Events

Book:Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity - when He deems itabsolutely necessary from His all - encompassing point of view. For a single alteration in the planned and imprinted pattern in which each line and dot is interdependent, means a shaking up and a re-linking of an unending chain of possibilities and events.”

Humans Mean Doe Lines Views Destiny Events Possibility Patterns Work Out Point Of View Graves Chains Interfere Shaking Dots Unending Alterations

Author:Meher Baba

“There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.”

Men Giving Humans Long Ends Enough Action Pain Together Suffering Pleasure Events Consequence Chains This Life Providence Linked

Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

“The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking partly for the experience it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.”

Feels Book Ideas Reason Past Used Certain Accepting Events Havens Comfortable Aspect Luck Divorce Chains Enjoyed Relate Timing Grandkids Backpacking Chain Of Events

Author:Alex Garland

“It's much harder to say "I'm going to kill three of the biggest characters in your universe in a gruesome bloodbath." There can be a lot of differing opinions in a mainstream comic book, you know? "Rogue would never do this!" But I can say, "No, Rogue suffered the death of Charles Xavier and it broke her down and she stumbled into a dark place and she started fixating on the Scarlet Witch as the cause of it all" which, there is a logical chain of events that lead to the Scarlet Witch. And in the confusion, she thought Wanda was up to doing it again and she did what she thought was best.”

“It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.”

Causes Chance Interesting Events Reactions Chains Encounters Coincidence Remarks Inevitability Retrospect Climax Trifling Devious Great Events Chain Reactions Chance Encounters

Book:Down Among the Dead Men

Source: Down Among the Dead Men

“Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain.”

Facts Certain Causes Born Gone Effects Events Endless Chains Stand Alone

Author:Julian Johnson

“It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were connected, by an invisible chain, with the moral and metaphysical opinions of the human mind; and the most sagacious divines could distinguish, according to the colour of their respective prejudices, that the establishment of heresy tended to produce an earthquake, or that a deluge was the inevitable consequence of the progress of sin and error.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply, at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.”

Men Moments Light Energy Events Chains Flash Definite Moments In Time Chain Of Events

Author:Robert Jastrow

“I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and I immediately interrupted her and said, "Oh no, Lemony Snicket isn't here," and then she tried to cancel the event right then and there.”

Said Stage Events Chains Bookstores Interrupted Nameless Snicket

Author:Daniel Handler

“Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.”

Life Science Life Is Events Areas Chains Centre Compass Chain Of Events

Author:Stephen Graham

“Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.”

Source: Transparent things: a novel

“Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?”

Humans Nations Events Chains Linked Saviour Our Founding Fathers Founding Fathers Christian Us Founding Fathers Founding Fathers Religion Christian Patriotic

Book:An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at Their Request, on the Sixty-first Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837

Source: An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at Their Request, on the Sixty-first Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837

“Changing eating habits in the North is an important link in the chain of events needed to create environmentally sustainable development that meets people's needs. The Beyond Beef campaign is an important step in that direction.”

People Needs Important Steps Events Development Needed Habit Eating Campaigns Chains Links Beef Sustainable Development Eating Habits Chain Of Events

Author:Walden Bello