Occupation Quotes - Page 34

• In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

  Gilles Kepel

  Iraq, Negative, May

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.

  Tom Segev

  Mistake, Thinking, Uprising

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.

  Niall Ferguson

  Guy, Finding Yourself, Collaboration

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.

  Robin Cook

  Iraq, Problem, Solutions

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• Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Hands, Brain, Leisure

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• Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

  James Dickey

  May, Poetry Is, Handle

  James Dickey, Ronald Baughman (1989). “The voiced connections of James Dickey: interviews and conversations”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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• Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Home, Army

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

  Edgar Pangborn

  Children, Exercise, Past

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• If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may be made separate ,by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.

  Guru Nanak

  Brother, Desire, Receiving

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• Occupation is the armor of the soul.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Soul, Armor

  George Stillman HILLARD (1854). “The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc”, p.22

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• When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Believe, Food, Heart

  1951 The Hour.

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• The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

  John Olver

  Leadership, War, Iraq

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• Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Phases, Painting

  Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

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• A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

  Mark Twain

  Healthy, Impossible, Cheerfulness

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Safety, Wish

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• Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mean, Building Up, Differences

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

  Jacques de Lacretelle

  Men, Divine, Principal

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• The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fun, Hippie, Offering

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Want, Latter

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• Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

  Ani DiFranco

  Self, Self Preservation, Preservation

  Song: Talk To Me Now, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• Occupation alone is happiness.

  Samuel Johnson

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• I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  School, Thinking, Careers

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• Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  Desire, Wicked, Deeds

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Annales, XXX. 9, 1922.

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• In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation under foreign occupation, we have accomplished much to our credit, overcome many difficulties and changed the course of our history.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Country, War, Years

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• Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.

  William Cowper

  Men, Thinking, Care

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.17

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