Quotes About Occur

Above all, we cannot and should not try to distance ourselves from any of these inquisitions by reassuring ourselves that no abuse of 'moral justice' could occur in the American democracy.

If a historian does not understand the bounds of the social space within which the events he is studying occurred, all he is doing is to paint a picture of his own society in fancy dress.

and I would spend much of my professional career trying to better understand why deep economic depressions occur.

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.

events are shaped by history rather than vice versa.

In the British statistician R. A. Fisher's famous formulation, "the 'one chance in a million' will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be abnormal. The dawn was too tense and highly charged for any common happening to survive.

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

So what can we do? The big idea is to make a model that lets us estimate the probabilities with which sequences should occur—even though we've never explicitly seen those sequences in the corpus of text we've looked at. And at the core of ChatGPT is precisely a so-called "large language model" (LLM) that's been built to do a good job of estimating those probabilities.

in principle this kind of erasure could occur billions of years after the influence it is thwarting, in effect undoing the past, even undoing the ancient past.

America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.

As we are seeing with the coronavirus today, disease can profoundly impact a community—upending routines and rattling nerves as it spreads from person to person. But the effects of epidemics extend beyond the moments in which they occur.

Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.

I know that there is a reason for everything. Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have neither the insight nor the foresight to comprehend the reason, but with time and patience it will come to light.

There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.

But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.

Destiny is for losers... It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

link together the other two Ps—prevention and protection—because they almost always occur at the same time. Here's the bottom line on prevention and protection:

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.