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• If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leader, Soul, Trying

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “You Can Work Your Own Miracles”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us, lest he be justly abandoned by God... If you are detained and do not attend on one occasion, make up for it the next time, bringing yourself to Christ's Church. Otherwise you may remain uncured, suffering from unbelief in your soul because of deeds or words, and failing to approach Christ's surgery to receive... holy healing.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Healing, Sunday

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject anything. Meditation is probably the only activity that doesn't add anything to the picture. Everything is allowed to come and go without further embellishment. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, non aggressive occupation. Not filling the space, allowing for the possibility of connecting with unconditional openness - this provides the basis for real change.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Space, Meditation

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’

  Starhawk

  Essence, Faces, Messages

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• Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mind, Hateful, Housekeeping

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1950). “Philadelphia Quaker: the letters of Hannah Whitall Smith”

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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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• Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.

  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

  Games, Hands, People

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• We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention -- international troops. And we need to end the occupation if there is to be security for both people.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Blood, Drawing, People

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• Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

  David Riesman

  Today, Consumers

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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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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• No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Culture, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.6

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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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• Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

  Meister Eckhart

  Thinking, Doe, May

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.

  Michael K. Powell

  Jobs, Technology, Media

  "Broadband Internet Keeps The American Dream Alive & Accessible" by Michael K. Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

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• When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.

  Rudy Ruettiger

  Moving On, Dream, Moving Forward

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• The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Lying, Order, Names

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• Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Mean, Squirrels, Laughing

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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• I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Citizens, May, Leisure

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.124

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