Occupation Quotes - Page 33

• Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

  Alice Hamilton

  Illinois, Disease, Legislation

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.

  James O'Donnell Bennett

  Life, Fundamentals, Done

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• To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'

  Pat Conroy

  Growing Up, Memories, Spring

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.

  Will Self

  Philosophy, Writing, Creativity

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• This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

  Franz Wright

  Eye, Adults, Looks

  Franz Wright (2013). “Kindertotenwald”, p.9, Knopf

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• I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.

  Mohammed Omar

  Struggle, Blessed, Healing

  "Mullah Omar Quoted as Saying U.S. Is Doomed", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2002.

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• After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stupid, Doctors, Fishing

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.240, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

  Robert Reich

  Prison Guards, Security Guards, Growing

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• That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

  James Madison

  Government, Choices, Citizens

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.479

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• Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Climbing, Mountain

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Peculiar Treasure: An Autobiography”, p.13, Vintage

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• There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.

  Hart Crane

  Careers, Parent, Birth

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lonely, Writing, Research

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• I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.

  Drew Barrymore

  Stress, Love Is, Movie Love

  "Why Drew Kicks Butt". Interview with Jennifer Kasle Furmaniak, www.cosmopolitan.com. July 16, 2003.

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• I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.

  Wes Moore

  Way, Needs, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.

  John Locke

  Growing Up, Father, Son

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 95), 1693.

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• I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Debtors, Way

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI”, p.15

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• I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

  Richard Powers

  Who I Am, Rewards, Pleasure

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• America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."

  Edwidge Danticat

  America, People, Haiti

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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• Muqtada is radical in the sense that he wants the U.S. occupation to end and has always said so from the beginning. Secondly, his support among the Shia really runs along class lines; it's mainly the poor who support him. His organization runs an enormous social network.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Running, Class, Organization

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• In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometres... If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn't have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Country, Squares, Numbers

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• marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Calamity

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and the Palestinian people, a struggle that centers on Palestinian land, history, civilization, culture and identityAs for your judicial apparatus, which is where this court comes from: it is one of the instruments of the occupation whose function is to give the cover of legal legitimacy to the crimes of the occupation, in addition to consecrating its systems and allowing the imposition of these systems on our people through force.

  Ahmad Sa'adat

  Struggle, Land, Civilization

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• I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

  Quentin Crisp

  Boys, Class, Faces

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• Aggression, occupation and a repetition of the Holocaust won't bring peace. What we want is a sustainable peace. This means that we have to tackle the root of the problem. I am pleased to note that you are honest people and admit that you are obliged to support the Zionists.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Mean, Roots, People

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• If the Holocaust didn't take place, why then did this regime of occupation come about? Why do the European countries commit themselves to defending this regime? Permit me to make one more point. We are of the opinion that, if an historical occurrence conforms to the truth, this truth will be revealed all the more clearly if there is more research into it and more discussion about it.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Holocaust, Historical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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