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#occupation

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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.


Penelope Lively


#interest #memory #operation #preoccupation #rather

In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.


James C. Maxwell


#approximately #been #carry #constants #estimated

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.


Oswald Mosley


#achiever #mind #must #never #occasional

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.


Miranda July


#writing-craft #metaphor

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things—eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies—since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#busyness #life #living #mind #preoccupation

If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business.


Wilkie Collins


#occupation #opposites #taste #business

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.


Renata Adler


#bored #boredom #cruel #cruelty #great

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.


Jon Lee Anderson


#before #did #flowing #force #here

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.


Bashar al-Assad


#capital #clear #consider #did #disaster

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.


Abdullah Ahmad Badawi


#children #choose #course #i #influence






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