“Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.”
Debt of Honor (1994), ch. 5
1990s
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“Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.”
Source: 11/22/63
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Jeremy Taylor, "Apples of Sodom," Part II, Sermon XX of Twenty-Five Sermons for the Winter Half-Year, Preached at Golden Grove (1653)
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Variant: What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
“She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.”
Bob Geldof, as quoted in the Jewish Chronicle, 11 April 2014, p. 5
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As We May Think (1945)
L'esprit consiste à connaître la ressemblance des choses diverses et la différence des choses semblables.
Pt. 3, ch. 8
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)