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George Macdonald
: Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
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The frivolous work of polished idleness.
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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
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Majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But -- like other precious, sacred things, such as the home and the family -- it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And -- since women are a majority of the population -- we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
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The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
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John Dewey :
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
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Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
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Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the everywhere into the here.... Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the skies as I came through.
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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
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The principal part of faith is patience.
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