"Weekends are an employee's parole."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will."

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"Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for."

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"Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life; to all its cares for the present; its anxieties for the future; more than all, its weary recollections of the past!"

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too."

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