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«Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.»
«For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
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«It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility»
«Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave»
«It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.»
«Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.»
«It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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«?Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn?t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.?»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
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«And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.»
«I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me»
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