Occupation quotes
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"He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good"
"You can't have occupation and human rights."
"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."
"What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?"
"A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others."
"The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation."
"To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content."
"As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation."
"The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation."
"Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length."
"Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative"
"Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions."
"The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life."
"Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands."
"Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich."
"There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully."
"Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched."
"My occupation doesn't really allow for routines, but I'm pretty consistent about tea in the morning."
"We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem."
"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."
