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Letter "O" » occupation
«I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.»
Author: Angelina Grimke
| Keywords:
deemed, employment, honorable, instructor, instructors, occupation
«If the United Nations does not take over the situation and there is not a rethinking of this chaotic occupation we are living through, in which there are more dead in the occupation than in the war phase, the Spanish troops are going to return to Spain»
Author: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
(Politician, President)
| Keywords:
chaotic, occupation, phase, rethink, rethinking, Return to, Spain, Spanish, The United Nations, troops, United Nations
«Even a boring occupation can be interesting when your goal is to do it better»
«If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.»
«Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
friendlier, friendly, full time, occupation
«Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
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combined, desiccated, desiccates, dried, flatten, flattened, flattening, flattens, intensity, narrowness, not due, occupation, self-seeking
«Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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challenge, doomed, dooms, frightening, History of, History of the, History of the world, mater, Miracles, occupation, The History, The History of, triumph
«MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, affected, at odds, aught, beating, conforming, declaring, derived, destitute, destitute of, engaging, firmer, illustration, illustrations, illustrious, inmate, inmates, in short, lofty, madhouse, Noah, Noah Webster, noteworthy, occupation, odds, officials, pronounced, sane, sanity, spectators, thoughtless, to the contrary, unusual, Webster
«Life without absorbing occupation is hell - joy consists in forgetting life»
«Life without absorbing occupation is hell.»
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