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Letter "O" » occupying
«My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.»
Author: Cary Grant
| Keywords:
bed, formula, formulas, get up, good morning, go to bed, in-between, I go, occupy, occupying, quite
«Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
dying, maintain, occupied, occupying, perpetuated, perpetuating, surpassed, surpassing
«An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.»
Author: Arnold H. Glasgow
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
bigger, brain, brain cell, brain cells, cell, coupled, coupling, idea, occupied, occupying, The Brain, The Cell, the couple
«DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the _Mayflower_ and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
blighted, blights, bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, Boeotia, by birth, centre, crusade, crusades, crusading, dullard, dullards, dynasties, dynasty, habitable, Illinois, immigration, infest, infested, infesting, insensibility, occupying, overrun, overrunning, overrun with, overspread, Peoria, Philistia, platitude, power politics, rapid, reigning, report, shockingly, theology, The Crusades, to this day, turbulent, withdrew
«CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history --which she did with great dignity, many of the prominent citizens of Athens occupying seats on the platform, the meetings being addressed by Messrs. Xenophon, Herodotus and other popular speakers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Clio, Herodotus, Muses, occupying, preside, prominent, seats, The Platform, Xenophon
«Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Body of, body of water, gill, occupying, ocean, thirds, Third World, two-thirds
«If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
examine, occupied, occupying
«Enemy-occupied territory is what the world is.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
enemy, occupied, occupying, territories, territory
«Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their be»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
design, effecting, find oneself, injury, Managing, occupying, repaid, repaying, repays, Small business
«Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
above all, divinities, divinity, exertion, joint, noble, occupied, occupying, partake, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, preserve, renew, renewing, renews, restoration, skill, the Earth, The Restoration
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