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The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.


Kenneth G. Wilson


#celebration #committees #confers #diligence #due

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


Henry Ward Beecher


#how #insane #know #man #occasions

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.


Stanley Crouch


#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.


George Woodcock


#difference #done #great #great deal #i

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.


Jane D. Hull


#education #high #i #list #now

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.


Charles Babbage


#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.


James Russell Lowell


#great man #made #make #man #meet

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.


Don Mattingly


#being #comes #decision #did #down

I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.


Erin Morgenstern


#any #believer #bring #called #concerts

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.


Sidney Poitier


#bounds #completely #easy #ethical #extent






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