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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson

Life, Good, Happiness, Good Health

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. - Sinclair Lewis

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. Sinclair Lewis

Nature, Winter, Season

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors. Cindy Sheehan

Water, Food, Peace, People, Medicine

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson

Happiness, You, Wealth, Tranquility, Nor

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human. Rosa Parks

Life, Home, Man, People, You, Comfort

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell

Listening, You, Observation, Will, Talk

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. Rutherford B. Hayes

Nature, Soul, Believe, My Soul, Soldier

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible. John Quincy Adams

Time, Habit, Bible, Reading, You, Fail

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. Nazim Hikmet

Great, Live, Looking, You, Living, Mean

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. Martha Gellhorn

Tough, Opinion, Stand, Citizenship, Own

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace. Joe Biden

Work, Good, Vision, Peace, Free, More

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics, Men, True, Be True, Fault

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation. Emile Galle

Purpose, Thoughts, Doubt, Wood, Way

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. Malcolm Muggeridge

Life, Laughter, Trying, Laugh, Place

We have been under military rule since 1952, when a group of army officers overthrew Egypt's monarchy and ended Britain's occupation of the country. But that only replaced an external occupation with an internal one, in which favored sons of the armed forces replaced their uniforms with suits, a move meant to create a semblance of civilian rule. Mona Eltahawy

Suits, Create, Army, Group, Country

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation. Eleanor Roosevelt

Family, Mother, Planning, Look, Her

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.' Rand Paul

Good, Good Night, Night, Islam, Fans

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. Truman Capote

Friendship, Friends, You, Because, Just

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Mahmoud Darwish

Born, Oppression, Die, Place, Person, He

I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in. Frances McDormand

Say, Mood, Mood Swings, Swings, Glad

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. Angelina Grimke

Time, Trust, Children, Will, Human, Most

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine. Hassan Nasrallah

Perspective, Blame, World, Reality, Real

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. William James

Life, Knowledge, Place, Your, Effective

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. Erma Bombeck

Work, Mother, Home, Alone, Child, Hurt

The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security instruments were likely to achieve the necessary goal, which was the reversal of Saddam Hussein's invasion and occupation of Kuwait. Richard N. Haass

War, Achieve, Goal, First, Point, Where

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered. Henri Nouwen

Identity, Society, Busy, Security, Way

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