Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
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We are great fools: He has spent his life in idleness. We say, I have done nothing today. Really, have you not lived? This is not only the most fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations? Have you been able to think about and manage you
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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.
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Let thine occupations be few,' saith the sage, 'if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.
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Experience teaches that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and by slow gradations. Men would resist changes, so long as even a bare support could be ensured by an adherence to ancient courses, and perhaps even longer.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living
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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.
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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.
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There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
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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.
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A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.
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Even a boring occupation can be interesting when your goal is to do it better
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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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.
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I wanted to find occupations where the hand of man was not going to be there in five years.
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We're the first to show that there is a link between stress at work and that cluster of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. We would expect to find even stronger evidence of work stress in more blue-collar occupations. Still, it's not just about people who say they're stressed at work, it's more about control, support and pace of work.
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It's no secret that, historically, the mining industry has been inherently more dangerous than most other occupations. I don't see where this one incident would have more of a detrimental impact (on recruitment) than any other incident in the past.
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My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.
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Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.
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When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
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To overawe, or intimidate, or, when we cannot persuade with reason, to resist with fortitude, are the occupations which give its most animating exercise, and its greatest triumphs, to a vigorous mind; and he who has never struggled with his fellow-creatures, is a stranger to half the sentiments of mankind.
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I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
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The fastest growing occupations usually require some secondary education to enter the occupation. There usually are not as many part-time jobs here, either.
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