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• Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

  Hesiod

  Design, Zeus, Hard

  Hesiod, Apostolos N. Athanassakis (2004). “Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield”, p.77, JHU Press

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• Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Broken

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• Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it’s best not to say anything.

  Miljenko Jergovic

  Say Anything

  Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

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• I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

  Margaret Fuller

  Life, Nature, Morning

  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (1984). “The letters of Margaret Fuller”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Birthday, Mom, Fashion

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• Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Imagination, Philosopher

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.463, David Hume

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• Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophical, Theory, Given

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.375, Princeton University Press

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• Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

  Robert Musil

  Hands, Clothes, Stupidity

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed by a passive individual enjoying an especially receptive moment. While that may be the case on rare occasions, the reality is usually far more prosaic. Staring at a blank piece of paper, I can't think of anything original. I feel utterly uninspired and unreceptive. It's the familiar malaise of 'artist's block' and in such circumstances there is only one thing to do: just start drawing.

  Shaun Tan

  Block, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

  Andre Gide

  People, Opinion

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Childhood, Religion

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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• I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

  Barack Obama

  Grandmother, Men, White

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• Life is an occasion...rise to it.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life Is

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• I’m an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there’s always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits. I have quite a few suits that I really enjoy wearing but, unlike Hannibal, I like wearing them only at special occasions.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Sports, Guy, Special

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Miracle, Logic, Kind

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• It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect in the government, frequent appeals would in great measure deprive the government of that veneration which time bestows on every thing, and without which perhaps the wisest and freest governments would not possess the requisite stability . . . a constitutional road to the decision of the people ought to be marked out and kept open, for certain great and extraordinary occasions

  James Madison

  Government, People, Decision

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• Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Competition, Enhancement, Tendencies

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.27

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• I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Respect, Truth, Too Much

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• He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

  John Owen

  Encouragement, Sin, Neglect

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

  Oswald Mosley

  Jobs, Men, Mind

  Oswald Mosley (2012). “My Life - Oswald Mosley”, p.238, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Soul, Individuality

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.287

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• Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Strong, Unique

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• Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

  R. J. Palacio

  Courage, Kindness, Character

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.309, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Consistency, Details, Found

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12

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• Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.

  Cyrus the Great

  Mean, Army, Winning

  "9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great" by Ryan Holiday, www.forbes.com. April 19, 2012.

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