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Jean Baudrillard
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
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Louis Kronenberger
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Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
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Leo Tolstoy
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Leo Tolstoy
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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A scholar knows no boredom.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
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Thomas Szasz
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.
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Voltaire
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Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need.
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Al Boliska
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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
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Johann von Goethe
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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R. I. Fitzhenry
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Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
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Johann von Goethe
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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Bertrand Russell
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Cyril Northcote Parkinson
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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William Seward Burroughs
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In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
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Jean Baudrillard
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
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William H. Borah
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My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
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Marguerite Duras
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In love there are no vacations No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
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Richard Bach
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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Martin Gore
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When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
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David Wells
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God's people have no assurances that the dark experiences of life will be held at bay, much less that God will provide some sort of running commentary on the meaning of each day's allotment of confusion, boredom, pain, or achievement.
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Karl Kraus
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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Eric Hoffer
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Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from
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Iggy Pop
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They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
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Isaac Asimov
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Immortality consists largely of boredom.
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Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least.
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Implementing systems is 95% boredom and 5% sheer terror.
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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
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A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
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Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.
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Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
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"Immortality consists largely of boredom." -- Zephrem Cochrane
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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"The boredom of my life would kill you." - Duncan MacLeod
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"Boredom is the highest mental state." -- Einstein
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"Boredom is the curse of immortality." - Cormac McCardle
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"Gods protect us from the boredom that is Mechanus!"
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"And the boredom of an accordianist." -- Crow T. Robot
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"I'd like 'it' to happen to me to break up the boredom!" -- Klinger
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"We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain" -Floyd
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"Then came... boredom!" -- Crow T. Robot
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"As a Human, I would have died of boredom." - Q
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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