Occupying Quotes
77 quotes by 72 authors
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be…
— Tony Campolo
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In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him...that we spend a…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of…
— Sun Tzu
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Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is…
— Sun Tzu
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With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies.…
— Sun Tzu
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Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians…
— Mohamed Elmasry
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If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life but…
— Tania Major
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There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon…
— Mark Twain
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For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate…
— Thomas Piketty
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We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits,…
— Jose Mujica
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Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
— Elyn Saks
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Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing…
— Glenn Murcutt
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The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you…
— Colleen Haskell
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Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped…
— George H. W. Bush
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For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches,…
— Osama bin Laden
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When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier…
— Noam Chomsky
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If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the…
— Thomas Young
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No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.
— Richard Perle
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It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops…
— Scott McClellan
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