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significant events Quotes

Nine of the best book quotes about significant events
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“How we spend Christmas is of greater significance than how much we spend for it.”
Suzanne Woods Fisher
author
Amish Proverbs: Words of Wisdom from the Simple Life
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money
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significant events
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“A person’s life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.”
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“It has been reserved for us to see flying a commonplace and ordinary event.”
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“In a small place, people cultivate small events. The small event is isolated, blown up, turned over and over, and then absorbed into the everyday.”
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“The people in a small place cannot give an exact account, a complete account, of themselves. The people in a small place cannot give an exact account, a complete account of events.”
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“Feeling that this was an important moment in his life, he took hold of the handgrips. They felt good and solid beneath his paws. Yes, this motorcycle was a good machine alright.”
Ralph (The Mouse and the Motorcycle)
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“Next Saturday we play Wangaroo for the Peninsula Junior Colts Premiership. The whole town is talking about it, it’s the biggest thing to happen here since the second prize in the S.A. Tidy Towns Competition (Section B). Just shows what sort of town I live in. Hopeless.”
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“Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.”
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“Everyone’s going to remember where they were when the taps went dry, I think. Like when a president is assassinated.”

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