#occupied

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#american television #choice #ethnicity #food #i

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not? ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

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I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

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Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#country #france #left #occupied #right

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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