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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict. ↗

— Robert Shea

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The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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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. ↗

— Ralph Allen

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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

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Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. ↗

— Holly Johnson

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Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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