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"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
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"Without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she's dancing and she's bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows."
"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."
"Boredom " the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing " is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of humankind. Tedium, a fundamental angst of humankind, arises from human beings' ability to perceive time and our attempts to derive meaning from our personal existence."
"Extreme boredom provides its own antidote."
"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."
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"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
"The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press."
"Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible."
"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got."
"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."
"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible."
"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another."
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