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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Party, Humor

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.68, Knopf

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• If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

  Francois Fenelon

  Bores You, Ease, Amusement

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• For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.

  Robert Herrick

  Eye, Brave, Bees

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.254

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• O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Years, Land, Giving

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• The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Art, Hands

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• Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Accessories, Landscape, Figures

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• Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Today, Spirit

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• Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

  Rene Magritte

  Boredom, Painting, Habit

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• The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.

  John Shelby Spong

  Biblical, Two Sides, Justice

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• One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.

  Lee Krasner

  Men, Squares, Goes On

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press

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• Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

  William Osler

  Fleeting, Dodge, Minutes

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• Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

  Susan Jacoby

  Art, Real, Women

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• If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Crosses, Willing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 170), 1895.

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• Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Rewards, Fruit, Speak

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.198

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• As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.

  John Dryden

  Long, Ark, Earth

  John Dryden, Ludwig GANTTER (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter”, p.328

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• There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

  Saul Bellow

  Husband, Years, Exotic

  1969 Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.6.

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• There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.

  John Quincy Adams

  Party, Passion, Sacrifice

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• I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.

  Ricky Gervais

  Excited, Adrenaline, Feels

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Photography, Fashion, Book

  "In the Now". Interview with John Colapinto, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2007.

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• Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Kindness, Taken

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Key Writings”, p.478, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Dying, Afraid Of Life, Not Afraid

  The New York Times, April 03, 1970.

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• As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

  Karl Marx

  People, Division, Jehovah

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.396, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

  Paul Schrader

  Thinking, Awake

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore witness. He left a committed life so that people would never forget the suffering of people that he was connected to. King was prophetic because he lived a committed life. Now he did critique society, saying you're going to go under if you don't treat your poor right. I mean, that is part of prophetic calling, but it's not predicting anything.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Mean, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There live a great man named Joe
  who was belittled by a loudmouth foe.
  While his rival would taunt and tease
  Joe silently bore the stings.
  And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Rivals, Tease

  "The Soul of a Butterfly". Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

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