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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.


Jules Verne
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I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
Eddie Murphy
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.


Laurence J. Peter
Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
John Strachan
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.


Rainer Maria Rilke
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.


Steve Earle
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.


Ma Jian
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
Caleb Cushing
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Zhang Yimou
I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.
Richard Flanagan
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
Zebulon Pike
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Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.
Scott Rudin
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Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.
Aimee Carter
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If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.
Frank Delaney
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We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.
Theodore Zeldin
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I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.
Fred Armisen
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
Jack Nicholson
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I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.
Mark Gatiss
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