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«The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.»
Author: Charles M. de Talleyrand
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expedite, foresee, occurrence, occurrences, statesmanship
«Hutchison's Law:Any occurrence requiring undivided attention will be accompanied by a compelling distraction.»
Author: Robert Bloch
(Writer)
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accompanied, compelling, distraction, distractions, occurrence, occurrences, requiring, undivided
«Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.»
«Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Science
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and others, dissolved, occurrence, occurrences, periods, shorter, spots, surface of
«Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Belief
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belief, briefly, defined, illogical, improbable, occurrence, occurrences
«PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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bitterness, choler, continuance, continuances, fits, frequent, mid, moronity, occurrence, occurrences, oftentimes, peevish, propensities, propensity, querulous, ulcerated, wounded
«If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them - you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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and so, book, bound, bounded, bounding, consequences, happen, invent, loose, looser, looses, loosing, manuscript, manuscripts, natural, occurrence, occurrences, Something Happened, the book, The Natural, turn, Two and Three
«One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, committed, community, crime, crimes, Crime and Punishment, employment, habitual, infinitely, inflicted, not absolutely, occasional, occurrence, occurrences, punishment, punishments, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, wicked
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