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"What secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?"
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"Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations."
"The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure."
"But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation."
"Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941."
"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings."
"Life without absorbing occupation is hell."
"That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State."
"What secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?"
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"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."
"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night."
"Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins."
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