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“We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.”

“It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.”

People Feels Sometimes Individual Felt Worst Events Strongest

Author:Chris Kyle

“Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.”

“Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.”

Humans Body Individual Events Diversity Eternal Female Universal Males Gender Consistent Phenomenon Divides Highlights Singularity Women's Bodies Childbearing

Book:Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown

Source: Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown

“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems.”

“Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.”

Men Christian Individual Events Depends Genius Stones Absolutes Treasure Certainty Outcomes Misfortunes Abyss Stepping Stones

Author:Honore de Balzac

“History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.”

Way Individual Records Conditions Events Towns Small Town

Author:Gladys Taber

“In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.”

Different Certain Turns Individual Events Objects Circumstances Survival Various Wagers

Book:July's People

Source: July's People

“Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what happens to their physical bodies. They see the funeral as a ritual for the living so they don't always attend.”

Soul Feelings Body Happens Care Individual Events Don't Care Ritual Funeral Physical Body

Book:Echoes of the Soul: The Soul's Journey Beyond the Light — Through Life, Death, and Life After Death

Source: Echoes of the Soul: The Soul's Journey Beyond the Light — Through Life, Death, and Life After Death

“Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.”

“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.”

“The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.”

May Littles Moments Values Order Individual Lost Differences Results Events Battle Balls Importance Great Results

Author:Duke of Wellington