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God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
Ellen G. White
Life
God
Heart
Little Things
Chapters
Reveal
Occurrence
Proves
Tests
Common
Which
Little
Us
Things
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl Marx
Religion
Mind
Deal
Understand
Occurrence
Impotence
Human
Cannot
Human Mind
Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.
Kevin Feige
You
Learning
Will
Build
Tolerance
Rejection
Occurrence
Up
Trying
Going
Often
Common
Help
Keep
Keep Going
Early
Resistance
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
Faith
Defined
Occurrence
Improbable
May
Illogical
Belief
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
George Boole
Knowledge
Change
Expectation
Circumstances
Would
Perfect
Partial
Demand
Occurrence
Leave
Nor
Affecting
Probabilities
Probability
Acquaintance
Room
Certainty
Theory
Event
Founded
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Become
Recount
Adventure
Occurrence
Sufficient
Necessary
For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.
Adora Svitak
Time
Me
Behavior
Signs
Childish
Every
Other
Every Time
Kids
Citizens
Demands
Like
Make
Frequent
Occurrence
Exhibit
Normal
American
Irrational
Any
American Citizens
Irresponsible
Being
Display
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein
Nature
Exact
Variety
Factors
Reach
Beyond
Operation
Because
Occurrence
Domain
Any
Lack
Order
Prediction
Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
Carl Levin
Critical
Guns
Seek
Laws
Prevention
Steps
Safe
Involving
Access
Reduce
Occurrence
Accidental
Child
Storage
Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.
Caster Semenya
Privacy
Rights
Dignity
World
Human Rights
Immediately
Berlin
Athlete
Some
Following
Only
Leading
Also
Occurrence
Up
Human
Including
Fundamental
Championships
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
Daniel Ellsberg
Life
War
Me
My Life
Feelings
Changed
Has-Been
Weapons
About
Objective
Prevent
Never
Had
Since
Iota
Occurrence
Been
Overriding
Left
Revulsion
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Nuclear Weapons
In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the U.S. political system seems to have been made to prevent such an occurrence.
Fabrizio Moreira
Political
Election
Made
Party
System
Seems
Prevent
Winning
Could
Implement
Countries
Most
Occurrence
Been
Political System
Mandate
Represents
Agenda
Then
Use
There is nothing remarkable about having media and foreign embassy contacts. When I lived in Saudi Arabia as a journalist, this was a regular occurrence.
Jamal Khashoggi
Journalist
Nothing
Embassy
Arabia
About
Having
Remarkable
Contacts
Foreign
Occurrence
Regular
Lived
Media
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
Jim Hodges
Work
Out
Fabrics
Write
Emotional
Development
Prints
Occurrence
Reference
Up
Person
Trying
Personal
Autobiography
Psychological
Patterns
Stand
Used
Who
Figuring
Using
Growing
Growing Up
The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
John White Geary
Daily
Plunder
Mere
Roads
Armed
Occurrence
Filled
Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.
Karen DeCrow
Animal
Women
Made
Control
Worldwide
Tried
Prevent
Absolutely
Absolutely Not
Occurrence
Were
Pregnancy
Use
Recent
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
Katherine Dunn
Death
Research
Everyday
Intimate
Penicillin
Prior
Occurrence
Medical
Medical Research
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
Kevin DeYoung
Forgiveness
Daily
Prayer
Evil
Assumes
Would
Would-Be
Temptation
Delivered
Lord
Occurrence
Praying
Led
Might
Asking
Jesus
At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.
Leymah Gbowee
Time
Me
Natural
People
First
Live
Group
Saw
Like
Dead
First Time
Occurrence
Should
Body
For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
Madeleine Stowe
Me
Remember
First
Though
Some
Directly
Weeks
No-One
Environment
Knew
Involved
Became
None
Occurrence
Method
Michael
Expect
Happier
Which
Then
Much
Even
Two
Filming
Set
Two Weeks
I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.
Mel Gibson
Good
Daily
Job
Every
Something
More
Something Good
Cheapen
Occurrence
Turn
Much
Working
Hard
Hard Job
Special
Moment
Why
The most bizarre occurrence has to be when I dislocated my wrist during a show in Germany in 1997.
Mike Portnoy
Bizarre
Wrist
Most
Occurrence
Germany
Show
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
Robert Smithson
Language
Developing
Isolated
Occurrence
Procedure
Should
Ever
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.
Robert Vaughn
Man
People
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Given
Marvelous
Marvelous Thing
Know
Occurrence
Continue
Years
Ultimately
Questioning
Certain
Reasons
Searching
Thing
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.
Samuel R. Delany
Memory
Experience
Lose
Ourselves
Readers
Occurrence
However
Itself
Order
Fiction
Story
Much
Novel
Actual
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Samuel Richardson
Mind
Will
Other
Having
Small
Disagreeable
Occurrence
Much
Full
Large
Filled
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