#occupied

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#deadlines #i #just #other #preoccupied

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#another #another man #captures #capturing #continues

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#disease #every #history #hypothesis #lie

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth. ↗

— Juan Cole

#change #character #forth #laws #make

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#competing #contact #cultural #elsewhere #faster

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#colour #composite #continuous #infinitely #infinity

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#curing #earlier #false #follies #latter

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#forces #foreign #iraq #occupied #soil

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

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#created #delicious #eating #foods #i

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made. ↗

— Paul Berg

#becoming #biochemistry #biology #classical #genes