"A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."

-- Dorothy L. Sayers

#Nuisance Quotes #World Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”
“There are some disturbing messages in the Koran, there were declarations of war against non-believers, there's a declaration that Islam should be triumphant over other religions, the problem is this is not just in the book, but preached throughout the Islamic world that are preached, we in the West hear about that.”
“We're translating the Kama Sutra," Barrons said, with interactive aids.”
“Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.”
“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”
“Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.”
“It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.”
“No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.”

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