Occupation Quotes - Page 22

• Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Agriculture, Healthy

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• My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

  Sarah Gadon

  Stars, Actors, Movie Star

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• The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal.

  Kofi Annan

  Iraq, Invasion, Politics

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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.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Military, War, Commitment

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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.

  Ruth First

  Writing, Law, Study

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• Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.

  Kofi Annan

  Military, Fall, Responsibility

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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.

  Sam Brownback

  Religious, Government, Hands

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• It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Hands, People

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• The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is something else, something rising and contagious and surprising. It isn't aware of itself. It isn't keeping track. It isn't something you sign for. It's endless and generous and enveloping. It's in the drums, in the voices, in the bodies of the wounded made suddenly whole, by the music, by each other, dancing.

  Eve Ensler

  Love, Agency, Voice

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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.

  Timothy J. Russert

  Country, Cutting, Iraq

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• After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp.

  Nicolaas Bloembergen

  War, Reading, Book

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• From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Writing, Science, Letters

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.18, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Sports, Jobs

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• I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

  Queen Victoria

  Hate, Good Woman, Quiet

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• There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Distance, Goal, Mind

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

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• Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Religion, Housekeeping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

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• My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

  Harrison Ford

  Icons, Assistants, Storyteller

  "Letter from LA" by Anne Thompson, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2003.

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• Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

  Robert Bolt

  Dangerous

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• You can't have occupation and human rights.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Rights, Human Rights, Humans

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• There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Rooms, Improvement, Circumstances

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• You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

  Immortal Technique

  Thinking, Victory, Lessons

  Song: Angels and Demons, Album: The Martyr, 2011

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• I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Morning, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.395, Penguin

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• What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Children, Intelligent

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• By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear how sick I am. If you want to see a cokehead, just look at the pictures on the Occupation: Foole album.

  George Carlin

  Sick, Albums, Looks

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after the War was over that I saw the sea for the first time, in the vicinity of St Nazaire. It was there that I discovered the bunkers.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Ocean, Sea

  Source: ctheory.net

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