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Read more about this topic: October 2004 Famous quotes containing the word events:“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child” “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” “By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||