To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Oscar Wilde
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It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken
Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation.
Jean Parker
Even a boring occupation can be interesting when your goal is to do it better.
Robert Half
We all want the withdrawal, ... We all believe it is an illegitimate occupation, and it is a legitimate resistance.
Abdul Karim
Now the occupation is gone and all its remains and memories must be wiped out.
Ali Hussein
It's a difficult time to be somebody in a relatively low skilled occupation to have to be looking for work.
Steve Hine
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman Capote
It is a very popular occupation in Britain among people interested in aviation. I just cannot believe that the Greeks have taken this attitude towards them.
Gerald Howarth
If we start analyzing every single action of a game, we may have a situation where litigation becomes the main occupation of UEFA.
William Gaillard
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs
Frank Martin gave up on his old, former occupation transporting for the mafia, [and now] he just wants to have a straight life. [Martin] is the chauffeur for a kid and the kid gets kidnapped and he has to get the kid.
Louis Leterrier
I don't know of any other occupation so susceptible to so many abuses.
Abel Valenzuela
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
Sinclair Lewis
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps
The occupation is the cause of this type of martyrdom operation whose aim is to fight the occupation.
Yussef Rizka
Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps
Ready to sacrifice [myself], and I call on the [Iraqi] people not to allow my death to cause the collapse of the fight for freedom and an end to the occupation.
Muqtada Al sadr
It graphically portrays human beings were on this landscape. There's been 10,000 years of continuous indigenous occupation.
Rosemary Sucec
This culture that is mingling in our society has no justification. Our society will confront them and say, no, no matter what their cause is, be it the occupation of Iraq or Palestine. We will do everything to defend ourselves.
Marwan Muasher
In this regard, we would like to note that, according to international law, full responsibility for taking care of Iraqis' humanitarian needs rests first and foremost with the occupation authorities.
Alexander Yakovenko
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Hippocrates
She spent a remarkable amount of time on the county. That was really her occupation.
John Weber
Unfortunate. But occupation is the reason for killing, and occupation is apparently going to be the cause of killing the peace process.
Nabil Sha'ath
It's for the international community to put strong pressure on Israel to restore our rights and end all the occupation.
Ismail Haniya
The problem is not to condemn or to support. The occupation obliges us to defend ourselves.
Yussef Rizka
I'm surprised they didn't put his occupation as 'Fugitive.' That's the only part that's left out.
Robert Caldwell
The Palestinian people under Israeli occupation are now suffocated and besieged.
Nasser Al kidwa
The withdrawal of the [Israeli] army and settlers from the Gaza Strip does not signal the end of the occupation.
Mahmoud Abbas
It's one thing for marginal radicals to oppose Israel's occupation; it's quite another thing when activism reaches the churches.
Philip Farah
As long as there is no government, Iraqis tend to view the situation as one of occupation.
Andrew Krepinevich
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
Louise Brooks
Two and a half years on, we must begin to bring this occupation to an end.
Sir Menzies Campbell
These events happened because of the state of war... because of the British attitude to the occupation of Iraq.
Osman Karahan
This constitution was written by the occupation and will never change anything in the country.
Abdul Karim
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers
That was a marvelous occupation and very successful.
John Orton
The movement declares an end to its operations from the Gaza Strip against the Israeli occupation, which came . . . in response to the assaults by the enemy.
Mahmoud Zahar
ISM believes that the occupation can end through popular, peaceful protests that comply with international law for the protection of civilians.
Patrick O'connor
We will protest against the U.S. policies, especially the inhuman atrocities in Afghanistan and Iraq, a likely invasion of Iran and its continuing support to Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine.
Pushpender Grewal
I learned that one has to be really focused and devote oneself if you're going to get into the animal world. It's a full-time occupation. I didn't get into that. My mother immersed herself with animals. But she didn't forget people, either.
Alice Gilborn
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.
Saeed Seyam
Why this is important is because these resources can make future human occupation of the moon much more cost effective. If we can live off the land and use the resources that are available, then it becomes much less expensive.
Butler Hine
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Angelina Grimke
The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.
Tom Andrews
I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.
Giuliana Sgrena
We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by Multinational Forces is the root cause of the insecurity which led to this kidnapping and so much pain and suffering in Iraq.
Doug Pritchard
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Laurence Olivier, Sir
We are continuing to track down the information. We will be filing amendments to our report as soon as we conclusively determine the accurate occupation information.
Terri Hickey
The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
Ramman Kenoun
My message to Israel is to put an end to the occupation, and then there will be no fighting.
Aziz Dweik
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
Malcolm Mclaren
Our concern was that what has been a heritage occupation or hobby in this country would be destroyed in the paranoia of the avian flu story.
Joel Salatin
It's a lifetime occupation. Happy running everybody.
Branch Brady
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina
If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.
Mahmud Zahar
I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
We looked for things like inconsistencies in their stories about occupation, education, crimes and family background.
Adrian Raine
Occupation has nothing to do with whether the last settler or soldier has left Gaza. It has to do with control, and Israel still controls the Gaza Strip.
Michael Tarazi
There should be no one that died because this war shouldn't have happened and more killing and more death is not helping anything. The occupation of Iraq right now by the U.S. is the problem, it's not the solution.
Nancy Lessin
The report seems, more (than) anything else, to be an elaborate justification of extending the occupation of Iraq.
Dylan Penner
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Christina Of Sweden
It was incredible how strong the results were. The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death and a fear of the US occupation.
Maruan Abdullah
One of the bogus reasons that George Bush gives for this invasion (and) occupation of Iraq is to make America safer -- and Katrina exposed that clearly he has made America more vulnerable through his policies in Iraq.
Cindy Sheehan
What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.
Cynthia Mckinney
The occupation is continuing the escalation to undermine the work of the new government.
Ghazi Hamad
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Sir Robert Baden powell
LIFE: My favorite occupation.
Dirk Benedict
If the method is noble - to liberate our land, to liberate our people from the Israeli deals, to reconstruct what is destroyed by Israel's long-standing occupation - at that time we can discuss.
Mahmoud Zahar
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition . . .
Alan Brien
This is to assure people they have not shifted. They are moving in one direction -- fighting corruption and the occupation -- and that has not changed.
Nashat Aqtash
There are many females of ability to whom the business of instructing children is highly acceptable; and who would devote all their faculties to their occupation. For they would have no higher pecuniary object to engage their attention; and their reputation as instructors they would consider as important.
Emma Willard
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