#occur

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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.


Alfred Hitchcock


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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.


Samuel P. Huntington


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The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.


Mark Hyman


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The Avalanche," peacemaker Rachel recites, "is very important. It's a privilege to sing it. It's a celebration of our past." Everybody around the table smiles at her. "Yeah? Well, I've seen how easily the past can get rewritten." I glare at Mr. Oamaru. "Lyrics change. New authors come along.


Karen Russell


#karen-russell #occurrence- #change

Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices, but because of the silence that is in it.


Karen Russell


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Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.


Karen Russell


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It's unclear whether Brauser was trying to hit Franz Josef or Rangi. I hope it was the former. There's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim.


Karen Russell


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Even at this altitude, the substitute pilot's bathed in sweat, sweat running down his chin and neck. Fear must be the fountain of youth, because the substitute pilot now looks younger than any of us, doughy and flushed with horror.


Karen Russell


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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.


Sidney Altman


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Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.


Robert T. Bakker


#age #big #faring #ice #ice age