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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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Personal Development
"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
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Personal Development
"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
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Personal Development
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
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Personal Development
"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."
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Personal Development
"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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Personal Development
"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."
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Personal Development
"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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Personal Development
"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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Personal Development
"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"A devil - "A power that lives against its life"."
Philosophy
"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."
Love
"This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything."
Spiritual
"Fear is faithlessness."
Spiritual
"You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now."
Patience
"A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear."
Spiritual
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"
Communication
"It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh."
Spiritual
"Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here."
Philosophy
"To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace-the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us."
Philosophy
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