“The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.”

The Great Infidels (1881)
Context: The greatest men the world has produced have known but little. They had a few facts, mingled with mistakes without number. In some departments they towered above their fellows, while in others they fell below the common level of mankind.

Life lessons from Narayana Murthy (2013)

Voltaire's Bastards (1992)

Tiësto said about the ATHOC.
Source: [Dutch Top DJ Tiësto to rock opening Olympics 2004 Greece this Friday at Kennisland, http://blog.kennisland.nl/kennisland/2004/08/12/dutch_top_dj_ti/, Kennisland.nl, 2008-04-17]

Article in the New York Herald Tribune (17 February 1957)

1870s, Message to the Senate and House of Representatives (1870)
Context: In his first annual message to Congress the same views are forcibly presented, and are again urged in his eighth message. I repeat that the adoption of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution completes the greatest civil change and constitutes the most important event that has occurred since the nation came into life. The change will be beneficial in proportion to the heed that is given to the urgent recommendations of Washington. If these recommendations were important then, with a population of but a few millions, how much more important now, with a population of 40,000,000, and increasing in a rapid ratio.

Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 1, Scientific Method and the Social Sciences, p. 35

Cited to the Cleveland Plain Dealer (27 September 1990)

Source: Beyond Apollo (1972), Chapter 60