John Mortimer Smith quotes

“The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.”
-- John Mortimer Smith

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“What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge of which is essential to all youth who would assume their place in society as thinking, feeling human beings.”
-- John Mortimer Smith

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“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.”

“It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.”

“Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.”

Source : Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

“Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.”

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”

“Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty...”

“man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.”

“If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.”

“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”

“No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.”