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One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word can change the meaning of everything. Before you believe anything about God or anybody, ask yourself how well do you trust the transmitter, translator or interpreter. And if you have never met them, then how do you know if the knowledge you acquired is even right? One hundred and twenty-five years following every major event in history, all remaining witnesses will have died. How well do you trust the man who has stored his version of a story? And how can you put that much faith into someone you don't know?

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)

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My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.

Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born, French and American mathematician

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Circumstances can have a motive force by which they bring about events without aid of human imagination or apprehension. On such occasions you yourself keep in touch with what is going on by attentively following it from moment to moment, like a blind person who is being led, and who places one foot in front of the other cautiously but unwittingly. Things are happening to you, and you feel them happening, but except for this one fact, you have no connection with them, and no key to the cause or meaning of them. [...] - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.

"It's such a big world," She'd say wistfully. "Something is always happening somewhere."

People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right — especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.

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