Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history."
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Khaled Mashal
Political Leader
"There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option."
Haile Selassie
Emperor
"Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind."
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him."
Alonzo King
Choreographer
"The artistic path is a fearless occupation."
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"It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not"
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"Winter is not a season, it's an occupation."
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"[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down."
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"Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil."
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"The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be."
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"We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began."
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"Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy."
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"I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged."
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"Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign."
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"Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. ."
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"I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment."
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"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."
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"There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue."
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"We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation."
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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."
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"Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible."
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"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."
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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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"The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation."
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"I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto."
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