"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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"The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude."
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"If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts."
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"Occupation is the scythe of time."
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"So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation."
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"Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life."
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"My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love."
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"Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us."
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"Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes."
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"To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life."
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"Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want."
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"In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered."
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"Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation."
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"There can be no peace if the occupation continues."
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"A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation."
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"There is no way forward without ending the occupation."
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