Occupation Quotes
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The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
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But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
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My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.
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My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.
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Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.
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If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.
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The birth certificate of the royal baby lists her parents' occupations as being 'the prince and princess of the United Kingdom.' It says that under occupation, which I guess sounds better than 'unemployed.'
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Another occupation might have been better.
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The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron
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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.
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Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.
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The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.
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There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.
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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
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It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.
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Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.
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The death toll associated with the invasion and occupation of Iraq is probably about 100,000 people, and may be much higher.
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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
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My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
