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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Aristotle

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
Law and Lawyers
Henry Ward Beecher

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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Sanity
Henry Ward Beecher

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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
Youth
Robert Benchley

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See that no one puts a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way.
Influence
Bible

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Children
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Heroes and Heroism
Calvin Coolidge

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Love
Robertson Davies

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Difficulties
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
Suspicion
B. C. Forbes

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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Opposition
Sigmund Freud

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
Work
Ulysses S. Grant

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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
Fights and Fighting
Edgar Watson Howe

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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Silence
Kin Hubbard

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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Waste
Orison Swett Marden

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Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions.
Birth Control
Spike Milligan

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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Nations
Moliere

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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Reality
Titus Maccius Plautus

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There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
Explanations
William Shakespeare

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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Quotations
Alexander Smith

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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Silence
Sydney Smith

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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.
Pride
Frank Tyger

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A close relative is one you see occasionally between family funerals.
Relatives
Source Unknown

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.
Habit
Source Unknown

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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Diplomacy
Peter Ustinov

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun