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#occupation

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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.


Alan Dundes


#bring #class #colleagues #ethnic #family

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.


William Falconer


#anxieties #any #casual #employments #fear

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.


Eric Hoffer


#came #drawn #god #impulse #our

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.


Henry Seidel Canby


#directing #diseases #dogmatism #intellects #lives

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.


J. M. Coetzee


#authoritative #belongs #conception #could #days

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.


Edwidge Danticat


#aware #back #been #bit #connections

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.


Alice Hamilton


#caused #compensation #disease #had #illinois

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.


Theodore Kaczynski


#inmate #jail #now #occupation #suppose

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.


Ahmed Yassin


#battle #battlefield #change #desire #hamas

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.


Miranda July


#writing-craft #metaphor






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