"My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

#Giving Quotes #Demand Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”
“A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly”
“Okay, I won't open it until then”
“I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.”
“With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.”

Source : Nicholas A. Basbanes (1995). “A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books”, Henry Holt & Company
“Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.”
“There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.”
“I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunkâ€”I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.”

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