The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. Orison Swett Marden
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. Osbert Lancaster
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk. Bill Nye
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz
In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed. David Ricardo