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Quotes About Occurrence

When vaccination programs are successful to the point where the disease is unfamiliar to physicians and public alike, then concerns can arise with real or perceived side effects of a vaccine that affect a very small minority of those vaccinated. Such concerns lead to fewer children being vaccinated and to increasing occurrence of the disease.
~ Peter Parham
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
~ Algernon Blackwood
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
todas las cosas le suceden a uno precisamente, precisamente ahora. Siglos de siglos y sólo en el presente ocurren los hechos;
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Most magic wasn't even magic. It just was.
~ A. Lee Martinez
They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
~ A.A. Milne
Revolutions occurred in almost every European city with more than 50,000 inhabitants. The occasion for the revolutions was hunger.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
~ Proverb
When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?
~ Kim Young-ha
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
~ Joseph Heller
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
La situación proporciona la ocasión; esta da al experto acceso a información almacenada en la memoria, y la información da la respuesta. La intuición no es ni más ni menos que el reconocimiento».
~ Daniel Kahneman
How large is occasion noise relative to total system noise?
~ Daniel Kahneman
Our first response to hearing a story is the desire to tell it ourselves-the greater the story the greater the desire. We will go to considerable time and inconvenience to arrange a situation for its retelling. It is as though the story is itself seeking the occasion for its recurrence, making use of us as its agents. We do not go out searching for stories for ourselves; it is rather the stories that have found us for themselves.
~ James P. Carse
Occurring before a world, theatrically, a finite game occurs within time. Because it has its boundaries, its beginning and end, within the absolute temporal limits established by a world, time for a finite player runs out; it is used up. It is a diminishing quantity.
~ James P. Carse
In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.
~ James Richardson
Too late, too late, too late; it had happened.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt it strikes the imagination more forcibly.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
~ Douglas Adams
Anything that happens, happens.
~ Douglas Adams
Todo lo que ocurre, ocurre. Todo lo que al ocurrir, origina otra cosa, hace que ocurra otra cosa más. Todo lo que al ocurrir, vuelve a originarse, ocurre de nuevo. Aunque todo ello no ocurre necesariamente en orden cronológico.
~ Douglas Adams
Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
~ Douglas Adams
Bland reflected that the local verdict seemed to be the comfortable and probably agelong one of attributing every tragic occurrence to unspecified foreigners.
~ Agatha Christie