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«There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed»
Author: Alan Loy McGinnis
| About:
Helpfulness
| Keywords:
assist, assisted, assisting, assists, help, human being, noble, no more, occupation, succeed
«Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.»
Author: Joe Orton
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
encourage, minimum, occupation, officers, paperwork, police, police officer, police officers
«Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.»
Author: Madame de Stael
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
noblest, occupation, publication, publications, search
«My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.»
«Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
dependence, diversion, diversions, emptiness, helplessness, inadequacies, inadequacy, intolerable, loneliness, nullity, occupation, passions
«The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
at leisure, bother, cure, curing, happy, leisure, miserable, occupation, secret, The Cure, The Secret
«The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Foolishness
| Keywords:
costly, follies, occupation, palpably, passionately
«Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
exhilarate, exhilarated, exhilarating, give rise, law of nature, life-giving, manner, monotonous, monotony, occupation, rises, Rising Sun, Sun rise, sun rose, The Law
«She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
described, Her husband, ladies, occupation, reclaim, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims, shafting, shafts, trains
«No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
comparable, comparable to, comparable with, culture, delightful, occupation, The Culture, The Garden, to that
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