Occupation Quotes
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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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The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.
Said Seyam
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My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.
Ralph Stanley
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I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's always more than his present occupation.
Gerald Morris
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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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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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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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Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
William P. Perry
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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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When asked her occupation: Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.
Carrie Nation
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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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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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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
Ray Bradbury
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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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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
Simone de Beauvoir
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Occupation is the scythe of time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
Vita Sackville-West
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We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention -- international troops. And we need to end the occupation if there is to be security for both people.
Hanan Ashrawi
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The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.
Segolene Royal
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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