Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.
Romola Garai
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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
Mary Renault
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I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
Debbie Reynolds
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.
Susan Orlean
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
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Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.
Hugh Prather
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Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emil Cioran
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
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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.
Marguerite Duras
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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Wendell Phillips
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
Manly Hall
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.
Simon Cowell
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
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For many of us, eating has surprisingly little to do with hunger. We eat out of boredom, for entertainment, to comfort or reward ourselves. Try to be aware of why you're eating, and ask yourself if you're really hungry - before you eat and then again along the way.
Michael Pollan
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Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.
Christian Louboutin
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The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
Alia Shawkat
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If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.
Peter Straub
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