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“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.”

“A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.”

May Doe Two Science Term Lines Events Evolution Aspect Historical Significance Translate Organisms Suggestions Precision Analytics Living Organisms

Author:Gavin de Beer

“It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.”

Ifs Life Humans May Helping Life Is Space Accepting Our Lives Events Return Dust Human Life Overwhelming End Times Spend Time Unfathomable

Author:Alain de Botton

“An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.”

“America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.”

Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including

“It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.”

Years May Matter Would Be Millions Events Hundred Scales Inevitable Unthinkable Matter Of Time

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.”

Men May Happens Action Passion Sides Hours Answers Influence Events Masters Circumstances Creatures Slave Selfish Circles Willpower Wavering

Book:Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.”

Knows Years Mind May States Events Thousand Ten Notes Strikes State Of Mind Thousand Years

Book:Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)

Source: Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)

“Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.”

Ifs Thinking Men May Mean Art Certain Courses Found Bits Powerful Events Blessing Difficulty Average Mood Firm Streams Carrie Serenity Unfortunate Harbors Gloomy Mood Changes

Book:Van Gogh's

Source: Van Gogh's