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«The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.»
Author: A. Whitney Brown | About: Past | Keywords: actually, happened, wrote
«My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!»
«The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.»
«There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.»
«I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.»
«Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it, it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.»
«The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.»
«I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.»
«I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.»
«Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: happen, happened, watch, while, wonder

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