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• Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.

  Isocrates

  Style, Quality, Needs

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.274, Delphi Classics

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• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

  James Russell Lowell

  Work, Blessed, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

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• Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.

  William Penn

  Remember, Bounds

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won. He received nothing for the fights he lost. Jack Dempsey said that in his early days he was knocked down a lot of times and he usually was tempted to stay down because he knew that no one would hit him again until he started to get up. But Jack was a hungry fighter and he knew that if he was going to eat, he must get up in order to get the two dollars. He tells of one occasion when he was knocked down 11 times in one fight, and 11 times he got up in order to win the $2.

  Sterling W Sill

  Fighting, Winning, Order

  Sterling W. Sill (1976). “This Nation Under God”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Autumn, Men, Firsts

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and exploited for his purposes the powerful socialist traditions of Germany. The adjectives 'socialist' and 'worker' in the official name of Hitler's party ('The Nationalist-Socialist German Workers' Party') had not merely propagandistic value... On one occasion, in the midst of World War II, Hitler even declared that 'basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.'

  Richard Pipes

  Powerful, War, Party

  "Property and Freedom". Book by Richard Pipes, 1999.

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• Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity, Men, Virtue

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1543, Moody Publishers

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• Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.

  James Berardinelli

  Sight, Filmmaker, Spread

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• The press must speak out and, if the occasion arises, raise bloody hell.

  Herblock

  Speaks Out, Hell, Arise

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• A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.

  Stephen Toulmin

  Change, Commitment, Ideas

  "Human Understanding". Book by Stephen Toulmin (Volume 1 "The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts", epigraph), 1972.

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• The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...

  Benazir Bhutto

  Easter, Nice, Moving

  "Destiny's daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions

  Anita Hill

  Regret, Saying No, Suggestions

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Jesus, Who I Am, People

  Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry (1977). “Helter skelter: an investigation into motive”

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• I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel it’s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.

  William Klein

  Moving, Book, People

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• There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Years, Boulders, Moved

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• You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!

  Tyler Ward

  Home, Challenges, Trying

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• Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

  J. J. Johnson

  Needs, Looks, Noses

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• In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Blow, Water, Made

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• Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Mistake, Frustration, Choices

  "I feel angry, jealous, self-obsessed and lost - and I need to change" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2013.

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• On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

  Francois Arago

  Powerful, Eye, Science

  François Arago, William Henry Smyth, Baden Powell, Robert Grant, Sir William Fairbairn (1859). “Biographies of distinguished scientific men”, p.347

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• I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

  Joan Blades

  Activist

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Hands, Unhappy, Use

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• The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?

  Ted Simon

  Latin, Fall, Rights

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• A voice in me said, You have to rise to the occasion or the best in you will die. We always have that voice; we just have to make a choice to listen to it. We all have it; that's God's given light. It's just whether you have the courage to step into your destiny.

  Lily Yeh

  Destiny, Light, Voice

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