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• The hour on stage is rarely a drag. In fact, I can't really say that its ever a drag. The few times that its been challenging has been when you don't have a sympathetic audience or there is the occasional strange corporate gig or something that you take or that you're not sure and you're like, "Wait a second. That's just the wrong venue".

  Joel Plaskett

  Waiting, Challenges, Gigs

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". Interview with Colton Eddy, October 11, 2013.

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• In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.

  Michael Longley

  Country, Couple, America

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Errors, Growth, Victory

  "If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules". Book by Chérie Carter-Scott, July 15, 1998.

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• Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

  Dorothea Brande

  Simple, Healthy, Routine

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.43, Lulu.com

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• There's lots of things that can be solved with cash. And there's occasional things that can't be solved with cash, which become a bureaucratic nightmare for some reason, and there's no distinction between the two.

  Danny Boyle

  Two, Cash, Nightmare

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.

  Abigail Adams

  Sex, Class, Intellectual

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.24

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• Make sure you eat healthy food. You can have the occasional treat, but you also need to balance your diet with foods such as meat and vegetables. It will prevent you from getting colds and enable you to train and to do whatever you want in every day life.

  Jenny Meadows

  Vegetables, Healthy, Balance

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

  Andre Dubus

  Running, Sunday, Son

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Holiday, Epic, Hands

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• Some guys make their careers off one horse; kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for me I'm trying to get better and study. That means taking out new horses. It's a life study. When I've finished a horse, I turn him out and basically stop riding him, except taking him to the occasional branding so I can enjoy him.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Mean, Careers

  Source: www.americancowboy.com

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• Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

  Marshall Cook

  Silly, Order, Ideas

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• Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Prayer, Motivation

  Charles Spurgeon, T. De Witt Talmage, Henry Ward Beecher, D. L. Moody, Joseph Parker (2017). “Gems of Truth & Beauty”, p.192, Gideon House Books

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• For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Relationship, Strong

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• "Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Spiritual, Food, Jail

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they’re mine, so who cares.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Reading, Home

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• Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.

  Isaac Asimov

  Giving Up, Fighting, Winning

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• As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

  Henry Adams

  Political, Politics, Duty

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• As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Punishment, Community, Political

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That's one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Humorous, Dark, Relax

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• At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea; finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Ocean, Sea, Rivers

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jan 25, 2016

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• Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Mistake

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.60, Bantam

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• Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Ocean, Dedication

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• It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

  Mark Twain

  Cities, Trying, Chicago

  Mark Twain (2014). “Life On The Mississippi”, p.643, Jazzybee Verlag

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