#occupied

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#end #occupied #russians #second #second world war

But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

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A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#i #lot #music #opposed #people

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#haiti #occupied #states #united #united states

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#ancient #ancient greeks #composition #greeks #mind

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #comes #desire #entry #everyone

The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#meaning-of-life #universe #universeing-occupied #life

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#any #comfort #consider #find #fresh

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apartheid #been #conditions #experienced #housing