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Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

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As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital. ↗

— Donald Evans

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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. ↗

— Frances Burney

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

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In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.' ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

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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

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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

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