"Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation and what's going on today."
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"Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation."
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"Occupation alone is happiness."
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"Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain."
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"The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man."
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"LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind."
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"Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death."
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"My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon.""
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"From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations."
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"Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life."
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"The human mind ever longs for occupation."
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"I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist.""
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"Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor."
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"In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval."
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"We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression."
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"Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?"
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"Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . ."
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"My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around."
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"I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation."
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"The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers."
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