#cup

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. ↗

— August Strindberg

#expect #fellow #fellow men #men #occupation

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#lands #limited #more #new #soon

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. ↗

— David Suzuki

#children #connecting #dangerous #dirty #facebook

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#curing #earlier #false #follies #latter

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#disease #every #history #hypothesis #lie

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#forces #foreign #iraq #occupied #soil

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#created #delicious #eating #foods #i

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#beautiful #blue #children #cliff #cup

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#any #been #busy #costume #culture

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anxiety #apprehension #endless #forever #may