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«In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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occasion, occasioned, on occasion, turning away, turn away
«Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion»
«I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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occasion
«Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.»
«I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands»
Author: Seneca
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Books
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demands, from time to time, needs, occasion, occasioned, on occasion, pages, ready, stick together, stored, stored up, storing, stuck, truths, turned, unpack, unpacking
«In all of this, it is the spirit that matters. Our Scout law and Promise, when we really put them into practice, take away all occasion for wars and strife among nations.»
Author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(Army Officer)
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occasion, practice of law, promise, put into practice, scout, scouting, Scouts, strife, take away, wars
«I am deeply touched - not as deeply touched as you have been coming to this dinner, but nevertheless it is a sentimental occasion»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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dinner, nevertheless, occasion, sentimental, touched
«If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.»
«For courage mounteth with occasion»
«If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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acquaintance, contempt, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, familiarity, in the beginning, occasion
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