Occupation Quotes - Page 30

• I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

  Angelina Grimke

  Children, Employment, Honorable

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• The US tactical nuclear weapons are in Europe, let us not forget this. Does it mean that the US has occupied Germany or that the US never stopped the occupation after World War II and only transformed the occupation troops into the NATO forces?

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Mean, Europe

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Love You, Busy, Midst

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Jobs, Children, Talking

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• Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Easier, Humdrum, Worst

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• What is it to 'walk in the Spirit'? It is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the Spirit is occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. If the believer ever looks to the Lord Jesus, depends upon Him, draws all his needs from Him- if He is his All in all- then the believer walks according to the Spirit of Christ.

  Arno C. Gaebelein

  Christian, Jesus, Self

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• TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Tvs, Mindless, Passive

  "Living With a True Mother". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 21, 2005.

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• I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Redneck, Thinking, Hunting

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• There is something about permanent military occupation which seems to confine a man's scope and limit his opportunities; and after he has had a few years under the circumscribed conditions of official routine, he generally find himself wholly out of touch with civil occupation.

  John Monash

  Military, Opportunity, Men

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• For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  People, Rooms, Becoming

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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.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Ideas, Iraq

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

  Jacques Audiard

  Boys, People, Parent

  "All that glisters..." by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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• To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U.S., France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.

  Elia Suleiman

  Country, Islamic, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are cases - for example, the American Revolution. George Washington's army lost just about every battle with the British, who had a much better army. The war was basically won by guerrilla forces that managed to undermine the British occupation.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Army, Battle

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in a foreign language that they can't understand. If they want, you can translate it to them. But it is their choice. In general, though, I think Israelis don't want to know. Very few do. Basically, I write to the converted.

  Amira Hass

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Isis, Iraq, Updates

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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• As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation end. And then it is up to the Palestinians themselves to decide what they want.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Determination, Rights, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the alternatives here?

  Mairead Corrigan

  Ideas, Alternatives, Looks

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Law, Rights

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is. They are curious about each other and they can understand each other without being fed information. Why should it be different in cinema?

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Couple, Sibling, People

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Father, Steel, Links

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation.

  David Copperfield

  Moving, People, Saws

  Source: www.bicyclecards.com

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• In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to Palestinian Arabs. This is a pain in the neck for many Israelis. They say: Leave us alone, what can we do about it? Or they say: Look at Syria, look at Iraq, the West Bank is paradise by comparison. I was one of the first to say, shortly after the Six-Day War, that occupation is corrupting. It corrupts the occupier and, in a different way, it corrupts the occupied.

  Amos Oz

  Pain, War, Media

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation can be a calling and not just a job.

  James Hillman

  Jobs, Giving, Historical

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia.

  Vandana Shiva

  Native American, Land, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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