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  • To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
  • My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
  • Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.

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  • Lee Simonson Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
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  • Bill Bryson And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
    Bertrand Russells best: silhouettes in satire
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Billy Bragg By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Albert Claude For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Brad Bird If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Assata Shakur It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile Peacekeeper. It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of peace-keeping.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • James Thurber My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ayatollah Khomeini One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.
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  • Bob Ehrlich Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bill Buford The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Erica Jong There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship - only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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