Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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Busying
Synonyms for "busying" (13 found)
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13 entriesassignmentdeadlinesdirectinginstructingorganizingplanningpreparingresource drainsupervisingtaskingtime draintime sinkworkload
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11 entriesact of busynessbusying oneselfbusying schedules with meetingsbusying the staffbusying the team with dutiesbusying volunteers with tasksbusying with tasksbusyness leveldegree of busynessstate of busynessworkload and busyness
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What are you busying yourself with now?
Source: tatoeba (13261123)
All of you have some business or other to do in the world. Are not your thoughts, and talkings, and busyings, and anxieties, and cares, altogether about the business you have to do?
Source: wiktionary
And as other dreams come from the multitude of business, so from such like busyings of the mind, we shall pray but dreamingly and distemperedly.
Source: wiktionary