#occupied

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

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss. ↗

— Frank Woolley

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Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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