Occupation Quotes
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A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.
George W. Casey, Jr.
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From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
Stephane Hessel
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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.
Ernest Dimnet
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We said very clearly that the withdrawal has to be total; it has to be the end of the occupation.
Javier Solana
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History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.
Scott Ritter
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Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
William P. Perry
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A parallel to this system of punishment is the trauma caused by enforced unemployment in capitalist society. Add to this an inability for the unemployed to find any imaginable alternative occupation, and the extent of the effects of network exclusion becomes clear.
Alexander Bard Army of Lovers
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For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.
Richard Feynman
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Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Ammianus Marcellinus
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It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not.
Ossie Davis
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
Honore de Balzac
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When asked her occupation: Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.
Carrie Nation
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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
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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.
Raymond Arroyo
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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
Ray Bradbury
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My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
Sarah Gadon
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I can't wear the same outfit twice without washing it. And tennis is a grueling occupation.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
Simone de Beauvoir
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We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.
Ed Garvey
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The resettlement of populations scattered by war and by enemy occupation is one of the problems with which Europe will be most urgently faced when the occupied countries are set free. Since hostilities began, millions of people have left homes destroyed or threatened with destruction; millions more have been transplanted, deported, or expelled to make room for foreign newcomers who have taken over their property; millions of others again have been taken prisoner or individually recruited as workers and sent away from their countries to serve the occupying power.
Eugene M. Kulischer
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The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.
Segolene Royal