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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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• Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.

  Jonathan Swift

  Song, Strong, Fall

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.3013, Delphi Classics

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• in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

  Delia Ephron

  Boring, Grew Up, Murderer

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog: (Etc.)”, p.55, Penguin

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• There is nothing more boring than a bored person.

  Arlene Francis

  Bored, Boring, Persons

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

  Ethel Smyth

  Majority, Reader, Critical

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.

  Robert Denning

  Cooking, Decorating

  "Denning's Pot-au-Feu – A decorator indulges his passion for cuisine bourgeoise", by Suzanne Hart, House & Garden, March 1992.

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• there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Art, Saying Nothing, Fraud

  Gertrude Atherton (1908). “The Californians”, p.233, Library of Alexandria

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• Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Feelings, Groups, Modern Life

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• If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Mean

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• Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Love, Wings, Track

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• The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

  Peter Mayle

  Wall, Thinking, Looks

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