Occupied Quotes
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Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.
Blaise Pascal
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A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The indigenous peoples never had, and still do not have, the place that they should have occupied in the progress and benefits of science and technology, although they represented an important basis for this development.
Rigoberta Menchu
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Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
Lao Tzu
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Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it; was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention.
Charles Dickens
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The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.
Alice Bag
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When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
Rhona Mitra
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It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It seems to me that he has never loved, that he has only imagined that he has loved, that there has been no real love on his part. I even think that he is incapable of love; he is too much occupied with other thoughts and ideas to become strongly attached to anyone earthly.
Anna Dostoyevskaya
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What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.
Haruki Murakami
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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.
Blaise Pascal
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By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.
Brandon Mull
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She’s an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
Thomas Carlyle
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The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military.
Nnimmo Bassey
