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Letter "O" » occasions
«Men's fashions all start as sports clothes and progress to the great occasions of state. The tail coat, which started out as a hunting coat, is just finishing such a journey. The track suit is just beginning one.»
Author: Angus McGill
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About:
Fashion
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Keywords:
coat,
fashions,
hunting,
occasions,
progress to,
sports,
suit,
suit of clothes,
tail,
tail coat,
track
«Man was put on this earth to eat meat...The Bible says so dumbbell...I mean look it up will ya? All them old bible peoples, they was always eating meet; soon as they found out eating apples was wrong...It's true, on special occasions: goats and lambs. Who the hell ever hear of sacrificing a head of lettuce? You?»
Author: Archie Bunker
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Keywords:
apples,
dumbbell,
goats,
hell on earth,
lambs,
lettuce,
meat,
occasions,
old earth,
peoples,
put on,
sacrificing
«I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.»
«I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.»
«It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
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Mystic,
Nun,
Writer)
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Keywords:
although,
commit,
corners,
daughters,
incomparably,
in the midst,
lapsed,
lapses,
lapsing,
midst,
occasions
«He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me»
«In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bottom fish,
culminate,
culminated,
culminates,
culminating,
detect,
detects,
fishing,
lapse,
lapsed,
lapses,
lapsing,
occasions,
sandy,
shallow,
slides,
stream,
sublime,
thin
«In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.»
«Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is»
«How all occasions do inform against me.And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,If his chief good and market of his timeBe but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.»