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The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights. -- Hideki Tojo
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I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that. -- Rick Riordan
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights -- Hideki Tojo
Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct. -- David Bezmozgis
Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder, -- Mark Haddon
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. -- Hans Christian Andersen
That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens! -- Harry Nilsson
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? -- Henry James
I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that. -- O. J. Simpson
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts. -- Debbie Ford
I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped. -- Farnaz Fassihi
Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons. -- John Walsh
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision. -- Jeannette Rankin
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. -- Tracey Emin
I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature. -- Jimmy Swaggart
There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the 'Nude Descending a Staircase' to the Independants, and they asked me to withdraw it before the opening. -- Marcel Duchamp
My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same. -- Henry Ossawa Tanner
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within. -- Chen Ning Yang
My faith in God is unshakeable, even though till date, I have not experienced any miraculous incident that makes me feel the presence of a higher power. But the trust in God has been engrained into my psyche since my childhood. -- Emraan Hashmi
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. -- William Graham Sumner
I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability. -- John Abbott
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. -- Dale Carnegie
A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish. -- Joel Osteen
An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself. -- Vijender Singh
For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down. -- Gore Vidal
The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know. -- William Scranton
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit. -- Peter Ackroyd
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?' -- Tess Gerritsen
Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income? -- Tobias Dantzig
Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn't spread quite yet. -- Rick Riordan
The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident. -- Peter Drury
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident. -- Colum McCann
he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. -- Benjamin Disraeli
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few. -- John Lyly
What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? -- William Butler Yeats
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him. -- Camille Paglia
There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ. -- Brooke Westcott
I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity. -- Michael Servetus
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world. -- Rebecca West
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. -- Elizabeth I
I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath. -- Donna Rice Hughes
It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence. -- Samuel Johnson
President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. -- Chuck Grassley
The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident. -- Narendra Modi
I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it. -- Samuel Johnson
If she is clearly right, find fault with her that has nothing to do with the incident, and use that. -- Sherry Argov
And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...) -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. -- Susan B. Anthony
I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain. -- Benjamin Disraeli
So, you're telling me the zoo commissioned you to make a zombie panda in order to avoid a potential international incident. -- Lish McBride
Sometimes all you've accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident. -- Hilary Thayer Hamann
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. -- Condoleezza Rice
In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government. -- James Madison
Whatever love laws have to be broken, the first few seconds suffice. After that everything is a matter of time and incident." -- Amruta Patil
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth. -- Jessica Savitch
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. -- Victor Hugo
Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life. -- Sathya Sai Baba
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me. -- Patrick Modiano
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
[Elbowing incident] was a joke but what I want to say now is that I'm a bit sad that everyone failed to see that. -- Seungri
Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone. -- Nikki Giovanni
As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident. -- Peter Green
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. -- Criss Jami
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud. -- Douglas MacArthur
We all make mistakes, Steele. It's what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident. -- Paul Feig
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known. -- William Falconer
When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today...40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that. -- Richard Patrick
In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible... -- Stephen Jay Gould
I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself. -- Oprah Winfrey
In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman. -- Rob Sheffield
The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg. -- Gore Vidal
Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve. -- Shirin Ebadi
If you're referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it. -- Valentino Rossi
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist. -- Oscar Wilde
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day. -- Charlotte Bronte
The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest. -- Donald Miller
This one incident I will not allow you to shrug off!" "I wasn't planning to," Jace said. "I can't shrug anything off. My shoulder's dislocated." -Hodge & Jace, pg.296- -- Cassandra Clare
During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other. -- Gabriel Lippmann
We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet be present in every circumstance and incident. -- Nilakanta Sri Ram
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. -- Sylvia Plath
I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations. -- John Negroponte
As a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life, -- George Zimmerman
Don't worry, we're not letting her out of our sight"and after the Nick incident, we're not letting her out from behind this bar. (Aimee) Yeah, Prisoners R Us. (Tory) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult. -- Jaron Lanier
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down. -- Agnes Repplier
Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story. -- Erskine Caldwell
The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?" -- Barack Obama
Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions. -- Josiah Bartlett
Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident? -- Agatha Christie
Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country? -- Malcolm X
People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different. -- Garth Stein
In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel. -- Edgar Allan Poe
In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night. -- Jane Fonda
I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility. -- William J. Clinton
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth? -- Dwight Schultz
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going. -- J. M. Coetzee
Our experiences always teach us something. If the experience is "bad", then the lesson is even more powerful and meaningful. Every unfortunate incident makes us stronger and better equipped to handle new challenges. -- Miya Yamanouchi
There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with. -- James M. Loy
We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders? -- Cassandra Clare
My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it. -- Bruce Boxleitner
If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. - -- Epictetus
Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves. -- Paulo Coelho
If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork you into adventure or, by the same token, may not. -- S. J. Perelman
Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than an archaeologist. Indy: Well, the newspapers greatly exaggerated the incident. -- James Kahn

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