Occupation Quotes - Page 4

• The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.

  Khaled Mashal

  Responsibility, People, Community

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• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loneliness, Passion, Men

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• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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• Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Motivational, Girl, Work

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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.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Men, Faults, May

  "Gauss-Schumacher Briefwechsel". Book by Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1862.

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• In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

  Henri Nouwen

  Identity, Way, Busy

  "The Essential Henri Nouwen" by Henri Nouwen, (p. 152), 2009.

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• There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Strong, Female, Looks

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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

  Danny Glover

  Latin, War, Agreement

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• To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mother, Buddhist, Children

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• Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.

  Bobby Sands

  Fate, Generations, Judgment

  Bobby Sands (1997). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Roberts Rinehart Publishers

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• My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.

  Clayton Christensen

  Motivational, Team, Responsibility

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

  Alexandra Sokoloff

  Ambition, Character, Eye

  "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

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• I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

  Natalie Dormer

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Racism, Racist, Territory

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• Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.

  Edouard Boubat

  Differences, Buttons, Leisure

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• Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Laughing, People, Miracle

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• I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Should Have, Years

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.6

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• The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Sex, Mean, Race

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• Praise is the highest occupation of any being

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Praise, Highest

  Max Lucado (2013). “God's Inspirational Promises”, p.136, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

  Edward Abbey

  Race, Survival, Honor

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.

  Harriet Quimby

  Women, School, Flying

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• You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.

  Ariel Sharon

  Believe, Israel, Terrible

  "Sharon: 'Occupation' terrible for Israel, Palestinians" by Kelly Wallace, edition.cnn.com. May 27, 2003.

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• The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Israel, Argument

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• Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Hazardous Duty.

  Colleen Coble

  Stories, Unusual, Ends

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• Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.

  Remi Kanazi

  Colonialism, Problem, Palestine

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