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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Abraham Lincoln
Organization, Civil War, Events
Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.