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«In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
occasion, occasioned, on occasion, turning away, turn away
«I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me.»
«Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Opportunity
| Keywords:
common, extraordinary, occasioned, occasions, on occasion, opportunities, seize, seize on, seizing, wait, weak
«No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Mankind,
Sanity
| Keywords:
insane, occasioned, occasions, on occasion, proper, sane
«I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
demands, from time to time, needs, occasion, occasioned, on occasion, pages, ready, stick together, stored, stored up, storing, stuck, truths, turned, unpack, unpacking
«Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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acquiring, deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, effect, excess, exhilarate, exhilarated, exhilarating, moderation, occasion, on occasion, prevents
«Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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mouths, occasion, on occasion, possesses, shuts
«Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Bad Times, learner, learners, occasions, on occasion, scientific
«Indra is a sky god and a war god who holds the earth and the heavens apart, on occasion making the earth tremble.»
«Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
although, clear, events, leading, occasion, occasioned, on occasion, recollection, recollections, to it, up to
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