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"You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday."
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Personal Development
"Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it."
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Personal Development
"The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation."
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"Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep."
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Personal Development
"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."
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Personal Development
"A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae."
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Personal Development
"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."
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"Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day."
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"When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out."
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"The whole crew sat on the deck, without a storm or a monster attack to worry about for the first time in days, and ate ice cream. Well, except for Frank, who was lactose intolerant. He got an apple."
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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
Taste
"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts."
Power
"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."
Man
"A friend in power is a friend lost."
Friendship
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
Thought
"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
Purpose
"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game."
Politics
"Friends are born, not made."
Friendship
"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."
Rest
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
Politics
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