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"A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life." »Queen Christina
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"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." »Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629-1689
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"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money." »Blessing Irish
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"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil." »Hippocrates
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"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult." »Sir Laurence Olivier
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"The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." »H.L. Mencken
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"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him." »John Burroughs
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"On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky." »Harrison Ford
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"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking." »Jessamyn West
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"Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight." »Henry Robinson Luce
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"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never." »Edna Ferber
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"One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a thriftless and a thankless occupation, this writing of books: a man were better to sing in a cobbler?s shop, for his pay is a penny a patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious, he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious." »Barnaby Rich
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"O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone" »William Shakespeare
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"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." »John Swinton
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