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A life lived in love will never be dull.

- Leo Buscaglia

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I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

- Susan Sontag

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

- Virginia Woolf

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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

- Soren Kierkegaard

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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

- Voltaire

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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

- Lin Yutang

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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

- Bert Leston Taylor

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When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

- Eric Hoffer

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Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show.

When We Deal With Children

- Fritz Redl

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Boredom sets into the boring mind.

- Metallica

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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

- George H. W. Bush

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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

- Charlotte Whitton

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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

- Saul Steinberg

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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

- Bette Midler