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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)
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occasion, occasioned, on occasion, turning away, turn away
«Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.»
Author: Benjamin Rush
(Physician)
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Dreams
| Keywords:
imperfect, incoherent, occasioned, partial
«Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down»
«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
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Opportunity
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common, extraordinary, occasioned, occasions, on occasion, opportunities, seize, seize on, seizing, wait, weak
«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
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Books
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demands, from time to time, needs, occasion, occasioned, on occasion, pages, ready, stick together, stored, stored up, storing, stuck, truths, turned, unpack, unpacking
«And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.»
«Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Debt
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burthen, debts, discharge, exertions, likewise, occasioned, occasions, posterity, shunning, throwing, unavoidable, vigorous
«Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days -- whatever there may be for the dust -- the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.»
Author: Lord Byron
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A.D., expired, inconsolable, interred, lethargy, lingering, occasioned, sank, successor, third-year, thirty-third
«For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed;»
«Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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although, clear, events, leading, occasion, occasioned, on occasion, recollection, recollections, to it, up to
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