"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."

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"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."

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"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."

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"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere."

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"What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place."

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"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

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"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."

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"Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom."

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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."

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"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."

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"The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat."

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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."

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