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Read more about this topic: March 2004 Famous quotes containing the word events:“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!” “By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.” “Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||