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• Quote #176 Many things do not happen as they ought.
  Most things do not happen at all. It is for the conscientious historian to correct these defects....
• Different things happen everywhere all the time.
• Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen.
• Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rose
• Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially when people are looking.
  -- Charles Fetridge...
• Old age is that period of life when more and more things happen for the last time and fewer and fewer things happen for the first time.
• One of your most ancient writers, a historian named Herodotus, tells of a thief who was to be executed.
  As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king...
• One of your most ancient writers, a historian named Herodotus, tells of a thief who was to be executed.
  As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king...
• People who have the power to make things happen don't do the things that people do, so they don't know what needs to happen.
  -- Russell Bake...