Events

(105 votes)   The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(100 votes)   The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist

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(87 votes)   A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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