"The frivolous work of polished idleness."

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Source : James Mackintosh (1872). “On the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries”, p.232

James Mackintosh

#Work Quotes #Idleness Quotes

“There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.”
“Every morning just before breakfast I don't want no coffee or tea, just me and my good Buddy Wieser, that's all I ever need.”
“Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.”
“The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.”

Source : H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.114, Lulu.com
“It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
“I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.”
“Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.”

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