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«The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.»
Author: Dr. Burton Grebin
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
Death of, event, medicine, piece, The single, traumatic
«There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.»
«The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade»
Author: Hannah Arendy
| About:
Authority,
Civilization
| Keywords:
accounted, decade, defiance, established, event, last decade, outstanding, phenomenon, secular, social event, wide
«Remember that failure is an event, not a person»
«We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not happen»
«The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
author, event, meditated, performance, sincerely, The Author
«The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
event, fundamental, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, in the long run, long run, statements, The Long Run
«The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
event, horror, paucity, reverberation, size, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Habit
| Keywords:
a thousand, bright, bright side, event, habit, pounded, pounding, pounds, year
«There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.»
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