Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified."
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Occasions
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Brenda Lee
Singer
"I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion."
Machado de Assis
Writer
"It's the occasion that makes the revolution."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems."
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"Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly."
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"Be firm or mild as the occasion may require."
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"Courage mounteth with occasion."
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"You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will."
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"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."
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"Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this."
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"…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries."
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"To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know."
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"There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness."
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""Time" does not mean "occasion.""
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"There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man"
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"The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life."
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"It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself."
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"The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms."
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