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• Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Hurt, Men, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have no idea what `classic anti-Semitism' is. I'm not familiar with this term. I don't know where it comes from and what connection it has to France and what is occurring here. There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. An isolated incident can always happen. When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Years, Law, Ideas

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• What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

  Max Beerbohm

  Oscars, Next, Doe

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• When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.

  Margaret Thatcher

  August, Chinese, World

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• Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan Commander and Spock [in “The Enterprise Incident”] was totally out of context. Any Romulan worth her salt would have instantly suspected Spock because they are related races. That was wrongmy biggest objection is the scene between Spock and the woman, because I really did not believe it. And I did not believe that the Romulan did not suspect Spock of something underhanded. She does know enough about Vulcan and Vulcans to know that something's afoot.

  D. C. Fontana

  Believe, Race, Doe

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• Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because time no longer applies-you will see many incidents from your life in order to learn. You will review your life with two questions in your consciousness: Could I have shown a little more courage in these moments? Could I have shown a little more love? You will see where you let fear stop you from expressing who you are, how you feel, or what you need. You will see whether you were able to expand into these moments, just a little, to show love, or whether you contracted.

  Dan Millman

  Love You, Order, Two

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• I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think anything like that will ever happen in the NBA. Emotions run rampant. The games are so intense, and the stakes are so high. (But) At the end of the day, players and coaches really respect officials and really appreciate that they try to do a good job.

  Jalen Rose

  Running, Jobs, Player

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Summer, Children, Fun

  "English Social History".

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• The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

  Myla Goldberg

  Fun, Imagination, Empathy

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• The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Powerful, Commitment

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• Youre always going to have some individual incidents that arent going to show off the Ryder Cup in the true form and spirit that it was made.

  Tom Kite

  Cups, Spirit, Individual

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• Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Inspiration

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• There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with.

  James M. Loy

  Country, Reality, Doubt

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• I hate to call it crossfire, what the rapid action battalion attributes for the custodial deaths, as there must be two parties in any such incident. But the reality is the just found body of the victim.

  Irene Khan

  Hate, Party, Reality

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• A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

  Aristotle

  Fear, Tragedy, Catharsis

  Poetics ch. 6, 1449b

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• A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations.

  Isabella Beeton

  House, Cooking, Kitchen

  Isabella Beeton (2000). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged edition”, p.101, OUP Oxford

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• Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Struggle, Eye, Views

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• It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Country, Political, Risk

  New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (dissenting opinion) (1932)

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• I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wish, Add, May

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1868). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions”, p.273

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• Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .

  John Wayne

  Men, Lied, Tragic

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• These incidents of answered prayer are not more wonderful or more worthy of record than multitudes the world over could testify to, but they are written and sent out simply and only because I had to write them or disobey God.

  Rosalind Goforth

  Prayer, Writing, World

  Rosalind Goforth (2016). “How I Know God Answers Prayer”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift. You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.

  Benjamin Carson

  America, Issues, Government

  "Really, Dr. Carson? Obamacare Is Worse Than 9/11?" by Evan Gahr, www.thedailybeast.com. June 5, 2014.

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• To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.

  Meher Baba

  Inspirational, Essence, Games

  Meher Baba (2005). “Infinite Intelligence”

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• I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.

  Frank Van Dun

  Book, Law, Trying

  "Argumentation Ethics and The Philosophy of Freedom". mises.org. March 13, 2009.

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• In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice his coach had him play one-on-one while the team observed. When he missed an easy shot, he became angry and stomped and whined. The coach walked over to him and said, "You pull a stunt like that again and you'll never play for my team." For the next three years he never lost control again. Years later, as he reflected back on this incident, he realized that the coach had taught him a life-changing principle that day: anger can be controlled.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Basketball, Team, Life Changing

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