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“Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.”

“Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it”

Events Demand Testimony Dialectics Traverse

Author:Paul Ricoeur

“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to rappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes for pushing a lever and then retreating to passivity, for democracy demands committed participation in the daily workings of society.”

People Country Sports Democracy Events Demand Election Mere Committed Compare Pushing Participation Observers Spectators Passivity Levers Daily Work

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand.”

Ifs Giving Looks Made Different Goal Black Party Effort Events Particular Demand Clothes Dresses Impression Ties Tennis Lunch Cocktails Cocktail Parties Black Tie

Author:Lisa Birnbach

“(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests”

“Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and uniquesomething truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.”

May Long Moments Happens Process Secret Heard Events One Day Demand Historical Heavy Destroyed Cracks Halt Inertia Pseudo

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.”

Destiny Events Policy Demand March Irresistible

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.”

World Real Facts Causes Economy Events Demand Limits Real World Denied

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.”

“Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.”

People World Want Giving Should Persons Self Values Realizing Situation Events Involved Easier Activity Demand Surrender Passing Passings Lasting Imperfect Fleeting Make You Happy

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing.”

Reason Pieces Events Demand Destruction Claims Notes Silent Terror Statements Bloody

Author:Edward Said

“The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.”

Different Individual Social Events Demand Realms Individual Freedom Social Events

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Bernie [Ecclestone] has not been shy to say one or two controversial things. The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately. But not Bernie! What it tells you is that the demand for live sporting rights, the demand for global or regional events, is so powerful that you brush aside some things because there aren't so many of these events.”

Persons Two Lasts Powerful Gone Rights Events Products Demand Shy Crap Brushes Controversial

Author:Martin Sorrell