It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
William Ernest Henley
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Ovid
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Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.
Adam Lashinsky
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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
John Aubrey
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It is idle to await unanimity.
Robert Dale Owen
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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
William Graham Sumner
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade
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Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.
Henry J. Heinz
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I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.
Betty Field
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Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.
Virginia Postrel
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Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
Isabel Yosito
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I'm not good when idle.
Joe Wright
GoodIdle
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
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I'm a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That's when I get into trouble.
Shia LaBeouf
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil Gibran
WisdomKnowledgeWorthMoreIdle
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Maps help us in tracking our cabs - if they're idle, headed for a booking, or in the midst of a trip. With custom systems built atop maps using available APIs, we are able to manage our inventory extremely well, predict ETAs for customers, and optimally allocate the nearest cab to a booking request.
Bhavish Aggarwal
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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Barbara Johnson
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