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We condemn the view that the (U.S.-led) occupation's existence is beneficial for the Iraqi people because if it ended, there would be sectarian war - as if sectarian war has not already begun. (Quote by - Muqtada al-Sadr)

Ready to sacrifice [myself], and I call on the [Iraqi] people not to allow my death to cause the collapse of the fight for freedom and an end to the occupation. (Quote by - Muqtada al-Sadr)

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

The vast majority of Americans want to see the end to the US occupation of Iraq. There's increasing disenchantment. My campaign is to represent that sentiment, and the real concerns of Americans about health care, and the needs of a single-payer system of universal health care. (Quote by - Marcy Winograd)

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the naturals, the ones who somehow know how to teach. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)

I personally look at acting-at least for television-as an occupation for the mentally challenged. It's not a real job for real people who have any skill. I mean, they tell you what to say. They pick out all your clothes, and put your name on your chair in case you can't figure out where to sit. (Quote by - Danny Bonaduce)

We don't want to give the excuse for the occupation to return. We don't want to keep these [Israeli] planes in our skies all the time. We don't want terror for our children. (Quote by - Ala Husni)

One of the surest signs of our sincerity would be to withdraw a few brigades. It would convince the nations in the region that we're not there to stay, not an occupation power. Second is the notice to the Iraq government that they're going to have to start shouldering more responsibility, that our presence there is not infinite. (Quote by - Robert Scales)

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can. (Quote by - Lee Kuan Yew)

The results of the referendum were not surprising as the whole process is supervised and protected by the US occupation forces, (Quote by - Abdul Salam)

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Let him walk here ,on earth , bringing his dress, speech, and thoughts to a conformity with his age, his occupation, his wealth, his sacred learning, and his race. (Quote by - Guru Nanak)

It (law) seemed like the occupation where you could get things done. (Quote by - Robert Joffe)

The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state. (Quote by - Khaled Mashaal)

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. (Quote by - Angelina Grimke)

We don't want them to leave behind anything that will remind of us of the Israeli occupation, (Quote by - Farouk)

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance, (Quote by - Farouk)

Life without absorbing occupation is hell - joy consists in forgetting life (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

The continued (Israeli) occupation is the reason behind the tensions and the never-ending cycle of violence. (Quote by - Ghazi Hamad)

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. (Quote by - William James)

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)

This is to assure people they have not shifted. They are moving in one direction -- fighting corruption and the occupation -- and that has not changed. (Quote by - Nashat Aqtash)

By rights, is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. (Quote by - Frank Moore Colby)

A pleasant occupation for / A rather susceptible Chancellor! (Quote by - William S. Gilbert)

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. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

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