Occupation Quotes
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But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
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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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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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My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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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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Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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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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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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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 is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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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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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.
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My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
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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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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.
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In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.
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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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Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.
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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.
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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.
