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• System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

  Fred Brooks

  Debugging, Astronomy, Graveyard

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• A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions.

  Robin Sharma

  Passion, Special, Calling

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• Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation to the most recent revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya among other countries. The question is not their participation. Their question is the incorporation of women's voices fully in the new definitions of the countries where change has happened.

  Zainab Salbi

  Country, Voice, Egypt

  "'War is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, truthout.org. June 7, 2011.

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• I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

  Bob Barr

  War, Iraq, Approval

  "Election 2008: Presidential Candidate Bob Barr". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2008.

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• It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Art, Writing, Degrees

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• ...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.

  John Dewey

  Writing, Practice, Imagination

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• Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.

  James Cook

  Self, Class, Goal

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• We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite occupation of people who serve special interests, who have axes to grind, and public careers to advance. It is a game in which benefits are bestowed according to political skill and connection, rather than merit.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Struggle, Axes, Games

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• Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different - and perhaps barren - outcome.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Land, Iraq

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• Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Writing, People

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• Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed and is entirely repugnant to true beatitude. And on this account we are forced to submit to God this depraved nature of ours which fills our understanding with so many occupations, and causes us to deviate from the true path, in order that he may entirely consume it until nothing remains there but himself; otherwise the soul could never attain stability nor repose, for she was created for no other end.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Men, Order, Understanding

  Don Cattaneo Marabotto, St. Catherine of Genoa (2015). “The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa”, p.41, TAN Books

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• The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

  Theophile Gautier

  Men, Fitting, Civilized

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• A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  May, Nightmare, Prison

  "The Palestinian poet who inspired JK Rowling's stance on Israel" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

  Martha Gellhorn

  House, Citizens, Opinion

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

  William James

  Knowledge, Life Is, Passing

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.120, University of Illinois Press

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• I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyes water.

  Harlan Ellison

  Running, Jobs, Responsibility

  "Shatterday: Stories". Book by Harlan Ellison, April 1, 2014.

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• Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Invasion, Sometimes

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• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Military, Israel, Cities

  Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Character, Done, Ifs

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• The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Teaching, Rome

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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• When love is true there is no truer occupation.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Love Is, Adages

  Song: A Passing Ship, Album: East of Midnight

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• Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  War, People, Degrees

  Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. 2011.

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• The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Lonely, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may be made separate ,by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.

  Guru Nanak

  Brother, Desire, Receiving

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• Occupation is the armor of the soul.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Soul, Armor

  George Stillman HILLARD (1854). “The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc”, p.22

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