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Tag Name "Occasion" (500)

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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George Eliot
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I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
Bernie Ecclestone
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Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.
George Herbert
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A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.
Elise M. Boulding
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud
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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
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Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting.
Emily Post
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I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
Sidney Poitier
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Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m saying. And it’s the language in which I most often hear God’s voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.
Rachel Held Evans
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I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.
Ginger Rogers
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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
Walter Raleigh
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It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.
Josh Garrels
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I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.
Tom Brady
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas Jefferson
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My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
Lincoln Steffens
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The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.
Howard G. Hendricks
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
Samuel Johnson
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.
Albert Camus
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You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it
Victoria Beckham
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The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.
Mas Oyama
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Amen Lula said and she made the sign of the cross. I thought you were Baptist. Yeah, but we don't got any hand signals for an occasion like this.
Janet Evanovich
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When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.
George Scialabba
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As for 1994 [ U.S. Open], I didn't do very well, but it was a great occasion for me even though I was not playing the way I had hoped. And it was obviously a very emotional day that last day, but it was a great memory for me and I have had a lot of great memories at Oakmont over the years.
Arnold Palmer
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
Jonathan Swift
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