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«It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.»
Author: David Bailey
(Photographer)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
easing, eating and drinking, for instance, instance, intercourse, occupied, occupy, sexual intercourse
«No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.»
Author: Letitia Landon
| Keywords:
occupied
«In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.»
Author: Molly Ivins
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
comatose, crooks, governor, mostly, occupied, Texas
«Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
dying, maintain, occupied, occupying, perpetuated, perpetuating, surpassed, surpassing
«If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
examine, occupied, occupying
«Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
emotional, everyday life, fund, funding, mostly, moved, occupied, outlet, outlets, preservation, seeks, self preservation, surplus, surpluses, The Creation
«It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.»
«Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
above all, divinities, divinity, exertion, joint, noble, occupied, occupying, partake, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, preserve, renew, renewing, renews, restoration, skill, the Earth, The Restoration
«I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
| Keywords:
applied, chair, electricity, expert, my father, occupied, The Chair
«No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.»
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