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Occupation is the scythe of time. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Occupation alone is happiness. -- Samuel Johnson
Occupation is the armor of the soul. -- George Stillman Hillard
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. -- Leigh Hunt
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. -- Sinclair Lewis
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ... -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor. -- Edward Abbey
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. -- William Osler
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. -- Robert Baden-Powell
The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. -- Henry R. Luce
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
To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came. -- Diet Eman
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the Second World War. I was 7-13 years old during the War and did not really internalise its significance. -- Paul Virilio
[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down. -- Virginia Woolf
By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear how sick I am. If you want to see a cokehead, just look at the pictures on the Occupation: Foole album. -- George Carlin
LIFE: My favorite occupation. -- Dirk Benedict
Another occupation might have been better. -- F. H. Bradley
Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length. -- Barack Obama
There can be no peace if the occupation continues. -- Khaled Mashal
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. -- William Cowper
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. -- Madame de Stael
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none -- Jules Renard
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation. -- Khaled Mashal
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. -- Frank Moore Colby
Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is. -- Khaled Mashal
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. -- Blaise Pascal
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. -- Jessamyn West
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money. -- William Lyon Phelps
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never! -- Edna Ferber
... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. -- James Clerk Maxwell
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. -- Martha Gellhorn
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. -- Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. -- Truman Capote
The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be. -- Hayley Williams
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. -- Ernst Mach
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before. -- Jon Lee Anderson
Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.' -- Rand Paul
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. -- Rumi
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. -- Jonathan Sacks
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare. -- Mahmoud Darwish
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
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Nazim Hikmet
In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. -- James C. Maxwell
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. -- Mahmoud Abbas
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. -- Plato
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach. -- Peter Drucker
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. -- Muqtada al Sadr
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard. -- Mahmoud Abbas
Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation -- S. I. Hayakawa
Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation. -- Ani DiFranco
Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation. -- Robert Bolt
My sole occupation is love. -- John of the Cross
Writing is a solitary occupation. -- Bernard Cornwell
Writing is a holy occupation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Absence of occupation is not rest. -- William Cowper
Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. -- Susan Orlean
Ballin's not a hobby, it's my occupation -- Wiz Khalifa
The human mind ever longs for occupation. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The artistic path is a fearless occupation. -- Alonzo King
You can't have occupation and human rights. -- Christopher Hitchens
I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation. -- Justin Adams
man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. -- Johanna Lindsey
The greatest occupation is the act of writing. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal. -- Kofi Annan
TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation. -- Raymond Arroyo
Praise is the highest occupation of any being -- Max Lucado
My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. -- Theodore Kaczynski
My first occupation was to map the country. -- John Hanning Speke
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love. -- Albert Camus
My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around... -- Jimmy Buffett
A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding. -- Mason Cooley
My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon." -- Harrison Ford
Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence. -- Alberto Manguel
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation. -- Vladimir Lenin
When love is true there is no truer occupation. -- Gordon Lightfoot
There is no way forward without ending the occupation. -- Jean Parker
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy. -- Fred Brooks
marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation. -- Marthe Bibesco
Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects. -- Hans Blix
Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure. -- Charles Baudelaire
Il n'y a pas de courage triste. [in Journal sous l'occupation] -- Marcel Jouhandeau
Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom. -- Muqtada al Sadr
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. -- Elbert Hubbard
Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way. -- Julianne MacLean
Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation. -- Ovid
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. -- Richard Powers
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. -- Malcolm Mclaren
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. -- Virginia Woolf
Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds. -- Loretta Chase
Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man. -- Pope Pius XII
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. -- Little Richard
Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers. -- David Riesman
The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees. -- Janisse Ray
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. -- Holly Johnson
The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing. -- Theophile Gautier
I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. -- Penelope Lively
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it. -- Bashar al-Assad
A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. -- Mark Twain
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. -- Frederick William Robertson
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. -- Ray Bradbury
Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation. -- Thomas Jefferson
God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam. -- Muqtada al Sadr
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.... -- Hippocrates
Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing. -- Tom Rath
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all. -- Ben Stein
Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies! -- Mehmet Murat ildan

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