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• Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all.
  The conscientious historian will correct these defects. -- Herodotu...
• All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
• 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...
• Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially when people are looking.
  -- Charles Fetridge...
• Different things happen everywhere all the time.
• Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better.
  The things I worry about don't happen. -- Watchman Examine...
• Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
  -- Plautus (254-184 BC) -- Mostellaria, Act i, Sc. 3, 40, (197.)...