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"America is addicted to wars of distraction."
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"Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy"Percy... Chiron's collection!"
"Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common."
"There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities."
"Do you find this...distracting?"
"People are crazy about food, smoking, drinking, girls but not about their dreams."
"In a country where miracles are been emphasized, people lose their sense of priority."
"The crew gathered for a hurried meeting on the foredeck " mostly because Percy was keeping an eye on a giant red sea serpent swimming off the port side. 'That thing is really red,' Percy muttered. 'I wonder if it's cherry-flavoured.' 'Why don't you swim over and find out?' Annabeth asked. 'How about no."
"Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions."
"I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities."
"The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure."
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"At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."
"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well."
"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."
"That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose."
"There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?"
"Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it."
"The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks."
"Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic.""
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