#occupied

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#capital #capital investment #education #i #i believe

This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#century #healthier #law #lives #longer

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. ↗

— Alice Walker

#apartheid #both #guilty #inside #israel

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#god #important #individual #individual responsibility #mind

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

#divide #folly #holding #into #just

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#although #come #did #i #i think

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#been #comparatively #countries #crowded #east

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#created #elected #except #gaza #government

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#become #bigger #brain #brain cells #cells

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#action #any #bigger #brain #cell