Quotes with preoccupation

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  • Iris Murdoch Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Steven Spielberg I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Eric Hoffer Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Shashi Tharoor Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel That is my major preoccupation -memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Caitlin Doughty The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Sidney Poitier We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
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  • Arthur Erickson What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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