“ A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. ”
- Johann Gottfried Von Herder- Copy
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“ The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. ”
- Freya Madeline Stark- Copy
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“ Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
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“ In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping. ”
- Mary Wilson Little- Copy
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“ His thoughts were low;To vice industrious; but to nobler deedsTimorous and slothful. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. ”
- Russell Baker- Copy
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“ Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. ”
- George Foreman- Copy
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“ For a while, it was this sleepy little happening on campus, but within the last 18 months, we've seen much more interest on the part of publishers. ”
- Mary Stuart- Copy
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“ We are gravely concerned about the potential for cholera, typhoid and dehydrating diseases that can come as a result of the stagnant water and conditions. ”
- Mike Leavitt- Copy
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“ The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook Blew the gold hair about her eyes, — A mystery of mysteries. So he must often pause, and stoop, An all the wanton ringlets loop Behind her dainty ear — emprise Of slow event and many sighs. ”
- William Dean Howells- Copy
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“ Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.Tyler never knew his father.Maybe self-destruction was the answer. ”
- Chuck Palahniuk- Copy
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“ Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ If you've got a switch underwater obviously it won't operate. It's also difficult to repair. There's so much potential damage from static discharge, dirt and algae that the cost of cleaning it would likely exceed the cost of replacing it. ”
- Peter Evans- Copy
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“ Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
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“ To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
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“ The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. ”
- Leonard Cohen- Copy
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