Events
In the 19th century as Cairo expanded, Wagh El-Birket developed as a contact zone between the wealthy area round the Azbakeya lake and expanding central Cairo.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)
“If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, has some indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.