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The faster you go, the idler you get.
Ferreira Gullar / Poet
Faster
Idlers
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Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Men
Every Man
Idlers
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Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!
Peter Kropotkin / Zoologist
Idlers
Suffering
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
George Bernard Shaw / Playwright
Education
Men
Idlers
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All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
Tom Hodgkinson / Writer
Idlers
Ifs
Poet
Poets
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Edward Young / Poet
Idlers
Tomorrow
Fools
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An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
David Mitchell / Novelist
Different
Idlers
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx / Philosopher
Doubt
Idlers
Machinery
Numbers
Number
Greatly
Increased
Well-To-Do
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson / Novelist
Book
Idlers
Poor
Way
Life Good Enough
Life Good Way
Books
Substitute
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
William Cowper / Poet
Hands
Idlers
Watches
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Andrew Young / Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Fool
Heaven
Idlers
Tomorrow
Lay
Mortal
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Persius /
Heaven
Idlers
Reform
Tomorrow
Fools
Hold
Lay
Mortal
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle / Physician
Great
Drained
Empires
Idlers
London
Cesspool
Empire
Which
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Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann / Writer
Idlers
Leisure
Suffering
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Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
Horace Greeley / Editor
Men
Country
Idlers
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How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
William Cowper / Poet
Employment
Idlers
World
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No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
Washington Irving / Author
Men
Idlers
Sloth
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I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!
Tom Hodgkinson / Writer
Aspire
Creative
Creative Process
Hey
Idlers
Lazy
Realised
Suddenly
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The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.
Slobodan Milosević / Former President Of Serbia
Differences
Eugenics
Hard Work
Honest People
Idlers
Socialism
Allow
Dishonest
Working People
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In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.
Tom Hodgkinson / Writer
Idlers
Lennon
Lying
Song
Time Nothing Doing
Deed
Repeated
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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
Pablo Picasso / Painter
Art
Idlers
People
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If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing.
Fiona Apple / Singer-Songwriter
Gears
Idlers
Would Be
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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Pablo Picasso / Painter
Amusement
Games
Idlers
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve / Playwright
Wisdom
Faculty
Father
Father Time
Glasses
Idlers
Occupation
Pleasure
Wit
Leave
Fools
Glass
Shake
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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
Alexander Smith / Poet
Giving
Idlers
Vanity
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The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
C. S. Lewis / Novelist
Education
Idlers
Intelligent
Would Be
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What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.
Ebenezer Elliott / Poet
Earning
Idlers
Pockets
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Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.
Horace Greeley / Editor
Cities
Country
Idlers
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There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.
Henryk Sienkiewicz / Journalist
Idlers
Lazy
Writing
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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
Robert Louis Stevenson / Novelist
Happiness
Men
Focus
Idlers
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
Remy De Gourmont / Poet
War
Century
Humanity
Idlers
Invention
Labor
Artisan
Capital
Favor
Harmful
Mechanical
Operated
Whatsoever
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A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.
Tom Hodgkinson / Writer
Idlers
Slavery
Work And Life
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Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.
Tom Hodgkinson / Writer
Boon
Bustle
Cities
Genius
Ideas
Idlers
Watches
Free
Bench
Came
Idea
City
Public
Simply
Watch
Places
Reflect
Resting
Sit
Truly
Whoever
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Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.
Tom Hodgkinson / Writer
Book
Idlers
Writing
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As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.
H. P. Lovecraft / Author
Eye
Idlers
Lucky
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I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.
Fiona Apple / Singer-Songwriter
Differences
Ideas
Idlers
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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
Plato / Philosopher
Bees
Democracy
Idlers
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I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.
Nikola Tesla / Inventor
Inspirational
Idlers
May
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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle / Physician
Men
Air
Idlers
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