125 Quotes About Occupation
- Author Saree Makdisi
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What draws me to Palestine, then, is neither nationalism not patriotism, but my sense of justice, my refusal to remain silent in the face of injustice, my unwillingness to just go on living my life -- and enjoying the privileges of a tenured university professor – while trying to block out and ignore what Wordsworth once called the still, sad music of humanity.
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- Author Saree Makdisi
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Israel maintains its pressure on the Palestinian population not simply for its own security, then, but because such pressure has for four decades enabled it to maintain control over the territories- and, quite simply, because it encourages Palestinians to leave.
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- Author Iain Pears
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His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.
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- Author Louis Yako
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In many ways, the language, the sect, and the ethnicity are the IDs in post-U.S. occupation Iraq—the 'new Iraq'.
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- Author Frederick Douglass
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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- Author Terry Gross
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The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.
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- Author Steven Magee
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If you are looking for a job that may make you sick, I can recommend working at a high powered solar photovoltaic (PV) utility power plant.
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- Author Avinash Advani
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In the search for happiness, However, We r all equal; None of us is Happy - Not the Banker/Actors/Actresses/Politician/Housewife/Model/Doctor and so on.
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- Author Israelmore Ayivor
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We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!
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