"Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance."

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Source : "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

Tom Hodgkinson

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“The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.”
“The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.”
“A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.”
“I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more. But there are no fifteen thousand men i the world that can go across that ground.”
“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”
“We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.”

Source : "Earth population 'exceeds limits'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 31, 2009.
“Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.”

Source : "Chirlane McCray: From Gay Trailblazer to Politician's Wife". Interview with Linda Villarosa, www.essence.com. May, 09, 2013.
“The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.”

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