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• Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique musician made more unique because he has searched and found his own voice. Truly a rare find in music.

  Jeff Coffin

  Unique, Thinking, Voice

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• I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.

  Mike Lookinland

  Children, Real, Different

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• I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.

  Ben Savage

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

  "Paging Your Inner-Tween: We're Chatting With Ben Savage (AKA Cory Matthews!)". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.

  Peter York

  Queens, Thinking, Ties

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• As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Feelings, Rare Occasion, May

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• Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.

  Alphonsus Rodriguez

  Art, Offending, House

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• When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dedication, Ideas, Two

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• Somebody asked me recently, 'Have you done a lot of plays?' I thought hang on. I used to do nothing but plays. I've been very fortunate that on several occasions I've had jobs where I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer - however much money you've got.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Play, Done

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving Up, Should, Said

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• Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Heart, Winning

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• Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

  John Henry Newman

  Decision, Slender, Evidence

  John Henry Newman (1844). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.290, Aeterna Press

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• There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Order, Quality, Deceit

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Triumph

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.25, Harvard University Press

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• The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feelings, Magic, Owing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Blessed, Men, Dying

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• A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sheep, Littles, Sometimes

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “Autobiographical writings”

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• New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Progress, Ancient

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hatred, Sentiments, Appropriate

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.106, University of Georgia Press

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• This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Rainbow, Shining

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• The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

  William Penn

  Lying, Answers, May

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.

  John Vance Cheney

  Weed, Nice, Flower

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• A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Honesty, Men, People

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 25 Mar. 1776)

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• It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Passion, Practice

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