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Success is not defined by your occupation, but by the impact you have on others.
Author:
Stephanie Watson
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I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.
Author:
Jose Zapatero
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Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Author:
Madame Stael
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My first occupation was to map the country.
Author:
John Speke
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Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
Author:
George Soros
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Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
Author:
Martin Smith
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It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
Author:
Peter Singer
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I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it.
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Author:
George Shaw
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I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
Author:
Ridley Scott
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
Author:
Jack Schwartz
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
Author:
Bruno Schulz
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A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Author:
Dorothy Sayers
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That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.
Author:
Ali Saleh
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Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.
Author:
Tim Russert
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
Author:
John Ruskin
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To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
Author:
Little Richard
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
Author:
Ted Rall
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Author:
Plato
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I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
Author:
Daniel Pinkwater
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Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
Author:
William Phelps
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The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
Author:
Jean-Marie Pen
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Author:
William Osler
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I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.
Author:
Mohammed Omar
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The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
Author:
John Olver
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.
Author:
Michael Moore
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Author:
H. Mencken
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In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
Author:
James Maxwell
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Author:
Orison Marden
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It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
Author:
Agnes Macphail
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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Author:
Ernst Mach
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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Author:
Henry Luce
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Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
Author:
George Lucas
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
Author:
Penelope Lively
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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
Author:
Sinclair Lewis
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There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.
Author:
Emile Lahoud
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The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.
Author:
Kathleen Kenyon
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The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
Author:
Ramman Kenoun
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My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.
Author:
Theodore Kaczynski
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Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
Author:
Holly Johnson
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
Author:
Joichi Ito
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We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.
Author:
King Hussein I
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Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.
Author:
Roald Hoffmann
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
Author:
Nazim Hikmet
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Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
Author:
Alice Hamilton
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I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.
Author:
Kay Gusmao
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I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Author:
Angelina Grimke
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The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
Author:
Danny Glover
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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Author:
Martha Gellhorn
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
Author:
Carl Gauss
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
Author:
Carl Gauss
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Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.
Author:
Ruth First
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.
Author:
Ben Edwards
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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Author:
Peter Drucker
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The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.
Author:
Gerard Debreu
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In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
Author:
Edwidge Danticat
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Author:
William Cowper
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Writing is a solitary occupation.
Author:
Bernard Cornwell
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
Author:
William Congreve
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Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
Author:
Nancy Chodorow
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Author:
Truman Capote
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
Author:
John Burroughs
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It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
Author:
Sam Brownback
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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
Author:
Louise Brooks
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Another occupation might have been better.
Author:
F. Bradley
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We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
Author:
Earl Blumenauer
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Life: my favorite occupation.
Author:
Dirk Benedict
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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Author:
Robert Baden-Powell
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The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.
Author:
Jon Anderson
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Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
Author:
Ralph Allen
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Author:
Bashar al-Assad
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
Author:
Bashar al-Assad
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
Author:
Mahmoud Abbas
