Occurring Quotes
118 quotes by 109 authors
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events…
— Andre Breton
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Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the…
— David Cameron
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So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not…
— Stokely Carmichael
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After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the…
— Tori Amos
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The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear…
— Dick Cheney
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By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an…
— Steve Rushin
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists;…
— Jacques Monod
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Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena…
— Walter Houser Brattain
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Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design,…
— Frederic Flach
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[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a…
— Marjory Stephenson
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The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates some…
— Augustus De Morgan
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The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing…
— Barack Obama
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If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy…
— Nicholas Stern
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Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's…
— Stephen Leacock
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It is the movement between the negative and positive poles that creates electricity. It is the attraction between the male and the female that creates…
— Margot Anand
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CO2 emissions have been increasing, but the rise in air temperature stopped around 2001. Climate change is due in large part to naturally occurring oscillations.
— Syun-Ichi Akasofu
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In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure…
— Hyman Minsky
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Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or…
— Judy Collins
Who Wrote These Occurring Quotes
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