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When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones… — Vash Young Copy Share Image
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Natural events have completely destroyed this planet on numerous occasions in the past, and just like them we are a natural event… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In their public statements (but not necessarily in their private statements), scientists express a generally negative attitude towards the UFO problem, and… — Peter A. Sturrock Copy Share Image
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
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Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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I'm not going to tell you I know George W. Bush intimately. I'm not going to tell you we're best friends. I'll… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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“I remember the many occasions on which help has come from people whom I though had nothing to add to my life.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no… — Humbert Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions. — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
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Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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When I am travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
