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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.


King Abdullah II


#answer #arab #arab world #back #been

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.


Silvio Berlusconi


#american president #avoid #capabilities #contrary #convince

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.


John Foxe


#crowned #crowns #eternal #flowers #garlands

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


#because #becomes #conceived #continues #contradicts

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.


Maria Monk


#altar #assembled #before #belonging #ceremony

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.


Sarah Jessica Parker


#aware #certainly #dominate #fashion #i

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.


Pierre Salinger


#encouraged #had #himself #kennedy #lover

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


#be happy #certain #change #constitute #departure

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.


Kenneth G. Wilson


#celebration #committees #confers #diligence #due

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.


Henry Walter Bates


#each #favourite #friendship #fruit #hard






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