The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. There is the situation or the fact, and here are my thoughts about it. Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
— Eckhart Tolle
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In 1848, James W. Marshall found gold at Sutter’s Mill, sparking the California Gold Rush.
In 1916, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., that the federal income tax was constitutional.
In 1939, the deadliest earthquake in Chilean history killed approximately 28,000 people.
In 1961, a B-52 bomber carrying two nuclear warheads broke up in midair over North Carolina.
In 1972, Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi was found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. He was one of Imperial Japan’s last holdouts.
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