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"A scholar knows no boredom." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom." »Muriel Spark
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"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"boredom, after all, is a form of criticism." »William Phillips
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"boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least." »Lewis Ward
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"boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is." »Thomas Szasz
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"Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need." »Voltaire, Candide, 1759
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"Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need." »Voltaire
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"Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death." »David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach
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"Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning." »George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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"A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life." »Gustave Flaubert
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"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom." »Cyril Northcote Parkinson
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"God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom." »Johann von Goethe
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"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S." »William Seward Burroughs
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"boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." »Bertrand Russell
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"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." »R. I. Fitzhenry
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"My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race." »William H. Borah
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"God's people have no assurances that the dark experiences of life will be held at bay, much less that God will provide some sort of running commentary on the meaning of each day's allotment of confusion, boredom, pain, or achievement." »David Wells
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"boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character." »James Bridie
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"When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life." »Martin Gore
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"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice." »Richard Bach
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"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom." »Heinrich Heine
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"In love there are no vacations No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that." »Marguerite Duras
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"They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. boredom and indifference kill you." »Iggy Pop
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"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse." »Isaac Asimov
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"Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis." »Abraham Myerson
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." »Dorothy Parker
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