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

Thomas Jefferson

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Thomas Jefferson

Earth, Gardening, Culture

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

Happiness, Always, Which

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, Wealth, Nor

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

Listening, Observation, Will

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

Innocent, Goodwill, Bombs

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. William Osler

Success, First Step, Very

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

Bible, Which, Give

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

Trust, Will, Deemed

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, Will, We Cannot

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. Rumi

Envy, Away, Which

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard. Mahmoud Abbas

Aim, Cause, Rather

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

Lifetime, Existence, Whole

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be. Hayley Williams

Want, Nothing, Your

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

Living, Like, Whole

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. Muqtada al Sadr

Ignite, Armies, Lethal

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

May, Die, However

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

Informed, Citizen, Which

Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation. Ellen Ullman

Always, Computer, Been

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war. Noam Chomsky

Surrounded, Been, Deterrent

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

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

Radical, Some, Libertarians

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach. Peter Drucker

Teacher, Which, Average

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. Henry R. Luce

Business, Other, Calculation

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

Pretty, Full-Time

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. Jonathan Sacks

Discover, Some, Prime

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, Shades, Objects

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