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"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"

Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian Philosopher

Boredom, Dying, Risk, Starvation

"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."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

Boredom, Rebirth

"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."

Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright

Boredom, Competition, Play, Theater

"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."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

Boredom, Mediocrity

"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom."

Muriel Spark, English Novelist

Boredom,

"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

Boredom,

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

Anatole France, French Novelist

Boredom, Despair, Humanity, Lies

"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."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

Boredom, Moments, Possibilities

"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

Arthur Helps, British Historian

Boredom, Dying, Sense

"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."

Quentin Crisp, English Writer

Boredom, Effect, Facts, Freedom

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"There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy."

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"One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties."

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"It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office."

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"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."

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"Micro managing anything is not a great role for government."

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"Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that."

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"The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites."

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"Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea."

People

"My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep."

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