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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.”

“Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.”

Should Littles Life Is Events Concern Impact Neighborhood

Book:The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays

Source: The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays

“Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.”

People Knows Littles Courses Natural Prayer Events Radical Inevitable Radical Change

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture.”

Littles Failing Events Ego Interpreter Avid Wrong Or Right

Book:Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life

Source: Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life

“I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.”

Ifs Trying Humans Littles Character Stories Animal Secret Events Greatness Adults Warm Satire Historic Foibles

Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.”

“Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.”

Littles Found Events Morality Universal Everyday Pennies Great Ones

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.”

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Book:Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition

Source: Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition

“The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.”

Littles Events Details Pathetic

Author:Edward Gibbon