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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

Happiness, Which, Always

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

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

Mother, Planning, Her

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

Listening, Will, Observation

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

Always, Computer, Been

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

Very, Identifying, Having

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

We Cannot, Will, Nature

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

Prime, Some, Discover

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

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

Which, Envy, Away

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

Other, May, Shortcomings

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most, Search, Dream

When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians. Theodor Mommsen

Romans, Consequence, Last

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

First Step, Very, Success

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

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. Gilbert K. Chesterton

His, Apologizing, Only

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

Some, Libertarians, Radical

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. Mohammed Omar

Muslim, Nation, Tell

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, Calculation, Other

I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously. Kate Christensen

Rock Star, Envy, Pants

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

Nothing, Want, Your

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

Which, Give, Bible

The U.S., together with trans-Atlantic allies, never recognized the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. Moscow faced pressure or retaliation every time it tried to move toward official recognition, or at least acceptance, of its claim that the Baltic states were Soviet republics. Kersti Kaljulaid

Soviet Union, Moscow

No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families. Steven Pressfield

Think, Immune, Need

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. Plato

Ease, Works, Meddling

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960. Ruth First

Study, Set, Law

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