The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single gamete the Anlagen for a pair of characters. Each combination occurs with approximately the same frequency.
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.
It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs.
Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.
The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
Sadly, I have met very few people who have a plan for their life. Most are passive spectators, watching their lives unfold, one day at a time. They are reactive rather than proactive. They may plan their careers, the building of a new home, or even a vacation. But it never occurs to them to plan their life.
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.
Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.
Arrival at a new destination only occurs from leaving your current location.
Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.
Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.