Best Diversion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

“F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.”

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“How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.”

Men Earth Energy Interest Labor Selfish Paradise Diversion Selfish Interest

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.”

Wells Looks Doe Turns Fiction Let Me Claims Responsible Luck Sake Tricks Fancy Spite Satisfying Surprising Puzzles Shifting Diversion Let Me Down

Author:Alice Munro

“The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.”

Perfect Rooms Doors Internet Empty Free Speech Diversion Empty Rooms

Author:Clifford Stoll

“The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.”

Writing Process Secret Behinds Attention Influence Events Accounts Historical Diversion Great Events

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while alive. That so much of this suffering can be directly attributed to religion—to religious hatreds, religious wars, religious delusions and religious diversions of scarce resources—is what makes atheism a moral and intellectual necessity.”

Humans War Suffering Dies Loses Religious Human Beings Moral Alive Atheism Terrible Intellectual Resources Hatred Delusion Scarce Diversion Religious Wars Scarce Resources Religious Hatred

Author:Sam Harris

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.”

People Ends Sometimes Would Be Together Law Justice Liberty Impossible Ought Conversation Raises Trade Meetings Consistent Conspiracy Assembly Hinder Facilitate Diversion Merriment Assembling

Author:Adam Smith

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