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Laziness Quotes

“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children
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“Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.”

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Book:Healology
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“They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!”

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Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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“I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through life may be considered as the forming hand of his Creator, acting by general laws, and awakening his sluggish existence, by the animating touches of the Divinity, into a capacity of superior enjoyment. The original sin of man is the torpor and corruption of the chaotic matter in which he may be said to be born.”

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Author:Thomas Robert Malthus
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“Virginie had in haar leven nooit iets gedaan wat ook maar enigszins in de buurt kwam van werk, ze had altijd het oneindige gebied van nietsdoen en nonchalance verkend, en leek vastbesloten die roeping tot het eind toe vol te houden, maar zelfs als ze een werkpaard was geweest, hadden haar chagrijnige humeur en haar houding van infante haar totaal ongeschikt gemaakt om een taak te volbrengen die uitgaat van regelmatig contact met haar medemens, zelfs als die zo onbehouwen was als de vaste caféklanten.”

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Book:Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome
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“It is late afternoon and the daily, or nightly, game of cat and mouse between Rome’s vigili urbani, or traffic police, and the unlicensed street peddlers who set up their portable tables and lamps in Piazza Sant’Egidio where I live, or nearby, is about to start. And, as usual, the mice will win. Not because they are smarter but simply because they care more about breaking the law than the authorities care about enforcing it.”

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Book:My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City
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“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me. That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...”

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Book:An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
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