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In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Hassan Nasrallah
History
Man
Fight
People
Victory
Liberate
Will
Leaders
Occupation
Occupying
End
Times
Hang
The History Of
Achieves
Happened
In The End
Land
Mankind
Many
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
Future
Business
Other
More
Instinctive
Calculation
Occupation
Exercise
Dealing
Foresight
Than
Any
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
Holly Johnson
Time
Me
Writing
Consuming
Occupation
Time-Consuming
Very
Rewarding
Creatively
I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
Ice T
Life
Art
Me
You
Yourself
My Life
Way
Kind
Carry
Boring
Had
Most
Occupation
Era
Normal
Just
Different
Stories
While
Different Way
Now
Bringing
The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.
Ismail Haniyeh
People
Remove
Has-Been
Launch
Martyrdom
Put
Occupation
Operations
Said
Terrorist
Hamas
Been
American
Did
List
Stopped
Then
Organisations
Wars
Europeans
Now
Why
Resisting
I want to do everything. I can never decide on one occupation!
Italia Ricci
Everything
Never
Occupation
Want
Decide
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee
Life
Word
Thought
Virtue
Our
Moral
Someone
Could
Writer
Days
Institutional
Conception
Well
Occupation
Sage
Still
His
Times
Offer
Prize
Authoritative
Literature
Who
Her
Belongs
The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
Jack Schwartz
Will
Situation
Military
Guerrilla
Gaza
Security
Hopefully
Security Measures
Involves
Occupation
Island
West
West Bank
End
Northern
Bank
Urban
Warfare
Measures
British
To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.
James Stephens
You
Yourself
Problem
Care
Mind
Will
Become
Frame
Must
Occupation
Answer
Question
Questions
Precision
Ask
Your
Meditate
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.
Jay McInerney
Generation
Bad Luck
Dangerous
Luck
Bad
Outlive
Spokesman
Occupation
Era
Being
Anyone
Fleeting
Who
Downright
Symbol
I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.
Jerry West
Me
Job
Else
More
Know
Occupation
Been
Than
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Lakers
Meant
Certainly
Player
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.
Jessamyn West
Savage
Alone
Family
Natural
Writing
Enemies
Society
Complete
Slightly
Solitary
Must
Writer
He
Occupation
Undertaking
Friends
Sustain
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
Peace
Vision
Free
Ukraine
Frankly
Russian
More
Remind
Occupation
Deal
Still
Quite
Quite Frankly
Us
Aggression
Illegal
Europe
Strategic
Whole
Good Deal
Guarantee
To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
Joe Rogan
Great
Me
People
Comedy
Think
Other
Worry
About
Occupation
Because
Much
Really
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.
Johanna Lindsey
Age
Writing
First
Occupation
Begun
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
John Olver
War
Leadership
President
States
Has-Been
Cost
Civilian
Disaster
Rendered
Policy
Occupation
Been
Iraq
Conduct
Decisions
Bush
Choice
Many
Strategic
United
Lives
United States
Incompetent
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin
Occupation
Labor
Either
Lending
Taxation
Land
Fortunes
Large
Founded
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.
Jon Lee Anderson
Mercy
Before
Medicine
States
Out
Bad
More
Through
Like
Look
Force
Occupation
Makes
Very
Than
Did
Refugees
Much
United
United States
Here
Flowing
I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
War
Will
More
Clear
Firm
Almost
Occupation
Been
Deaths
Very
Than
Listen
Fiasco
After
Bush
Position
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
Writing
Envy
Stage
Pedestrian
Pants
Kicks
Rather
Computer
Had
Occupation
Around
Tame
Rock
Always
Leather
Rock Star
Huge
Than
Get
Sitting
Done
Front
Vicariously
Unfortunately
While
Sweaty
Star
Pajamas
I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
Nature
People
Will
Human Nature
Believe
Others
Dimension
Emerge
Lead
Instinctively
Occupation
Provide
Privileged
Families
Human
Social
Them
Organize
Less
Help
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Laurence Olivier
Adult
Masochistic
Occupation
Quite
Form
Acting
But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
Little Richard
Singer
Occupation
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Livelihood
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
Louise Brooks
World
Other
Enslavement
Occupation
Closely
Star
Film
Film Star
Career
It's the life of an actor to always be questioning, always be wondering. There is no occupation in the world less dependable.
Louise Linton
Life
World
Occupation
Always
Questioning
Wondering
Dependable
Less
Actor
I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.
Lynsey Addario
Car
Accident
Valley
Kidnapped
Sunni
Driver
Taliban
Occupation
Covering
Iraq
Afghanistan
While
Pakistan
Car Accident
Injured
Near
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