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"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."
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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."
"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."
"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."
"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
"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."
"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."
"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
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