Occupy Quotes
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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
Aristotle
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think you have to take the man and say to yourself, Donald Trump is someone who wants to occupy the Oval Office, where Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and people who were our president, and I don't think it's just a woman's issue. I think it's an issue that should be of concern to all Americans.
Hillary Clinton
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Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!
Ivan Turgenev
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Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one.
Confucius
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Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.
Napoleon Hill
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
Bono
U2
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
George Bernard Shaw
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The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
Ernestine Rose
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Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate, because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.
George S. Patton
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Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.
David Bronstein
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An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
Juan Cole