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I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism.


Erin Duffy


#any #bit #fashion #going #heavily

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.


Marianne Williamson


#feel #fill #heart #meaningless #mind

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.


Lactantius


#capitol #city #dedicated #engines #had

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#attention #began #book #father #i

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.


Douglass North


#i #impression #left #life #my life

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.


Douglass North


#development #during #economic #explore #framework

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.


Heinrich Schliemann


#aim #am #completely #customary #disagree

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.


Johannes Tauler


#cannot #comes #desire #entry #everyone

The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.


Douglas Adams


#meaning-of-life #universe #universeing-occupied #life

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.


Gertrude Stein


#careful #everybody #knows #occupied #over






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