“ The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
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“ The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God. ”
- Abu Sa’id- Copy
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“ When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ Some people are so self-occupied, that even when in love, they find a way to be totally engrossed with the passion without being so with the person they love. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ I'm not particularly pre-occupied with the husband / baby thing. Besides I have a dog. ”
- Calista Flockhart- Copy
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“ Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. ”
- Arnold H. Glasow- Copy
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“ Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated. ”
- Donald Barthelme- Copy
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“ I just think that on the bedrock of his creative genius, there resided in Shakespeare a male psyche and a female psyche and that they both dwelled very creatively and energetically inside him. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
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“ If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
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“ If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
- 370
“ Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ”
- Gertrude Stein- Copy
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“ If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Men's activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. ”
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon- Copy
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“ Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse. ”
- David Bailey- Copy
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“ The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems — the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
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“ The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy. ”
- Plato- Copy
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“ The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large… ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
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“ The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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