Occupation Quotes - Page 29

• Who created the sectarian attitude in Iraq? The occupation, ... We never heard of this before in our history. But it's good that Condoleezza Rice realizes sectarianism is not good for Iraq. All we want from them is fair and clean elections next month.

  Saleh al-Mutlaq

  Attitude, Iraq, Next

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• The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.

  Kofi Annan

  Believe, Independent, Acceptance

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• No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.

  Steven Pressfield

  Thinking, Rely Upon, Resilience

  "From Cabbie to Best-Selling Author: Steve Pressfield on ‘Turning Pro’" by Greg Clarkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets.

  Enver Masud

  Military, Islamic, Mean

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• Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Atmosphere, Torches, Cupid

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• Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Men, Feelings

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• There are women (some men, too, but mostly women) who are going to the occupied Palestinian territories to stand with the victims of Israeli occupation. These are very courageous Israeli women and some British and American women. That's something quite new.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Israeli Occupation, Territory

  Source: www.madre.org

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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.

  Manuel Puig

  Novel, Great French

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• Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

  Desmond Tutu

  Israel, Land, Political

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Atheist, Office

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Running, Home, Winning

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.6938, Delphi Classics

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• Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Writing, Age, Firsts

  Simon and schuster Interview, www.goodreads.com. October, 2009.

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• The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Government, Order

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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.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Writing, Trying, Easy

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• When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.

  Tia Mowry

  Real, College, Doctors

  Seventenn Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 19, 2007.

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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.

  Ted Rall

  Country, Commitment, Years

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• Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

  Frederick Sanger

  Research, Exciting, Scientific Research

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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.

  Xanana Gusmao

  Believe, People, Dimensions

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• Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Loneliness, Writing, Hazards

  "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Men, Car, Riding A Bicycle

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• Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Morning, Silly, Sleep

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.34, 谷月社

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• I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

  Billy Campbell

  Independent, Cowboy, Play

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

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• There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Gone, Unions

  Source: russialist.org

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• Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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