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• Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Lying, Irrelevance, People

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Stupid, Government

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is sure. With the right amount of trust and love, and even an allowance for mistake.

  Iza Calzado

  Mistake, Starting Over, And Love

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• It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going to happen... I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is boring. The future is going to be boring.

  J. G. Ballard

  Terrible, Happens, One Word

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• Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.

  Bill Watterson

  Disappointment, People, Risk

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• The smarter the person, the more boring the instagram account.

  Lorde

  Instagram, Accounts, Persons

  Lorde @lordemusic, twitter.com. April 3, 2014.

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• Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

  John Berryman

  Mother, Mean, Boys

  John Berryman, “Dream Song 14: Life, Friends, Is Boring”

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• The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.

  Doris Humphrey

  Dance, Stupid, Thinking

  Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”

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• As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Blue, Yellow

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mean, Sound, Revision

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• Some people are more experimental in bed and others are more boring. If you are wild and crazy, bring it on so the other person is well aware that you have little devil horns that come out every once in a while. It's good to make an effort to dress up sometimes, to do things outside of the norm.

  Heidi Klum

  Crazy, People, Effort

  "Hot Sex" by Lindsay Tigar, www.askmen.com. July 13, 2014.

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• If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

  George Soros

  Fun, Investing Money, Investment

  "The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros". Book by Mark Tier, 2006.

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• Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

  Clive James

  Diaries, Narrative, Philosopher

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• You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

  Barbara Hambly

  Gravity, Know How, Oneself

  Barbara Hambly (2011). “The Silent Tower”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• A little drama wins more friends than boring.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Drama, Winning, Littles

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• Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

  David Almond

  Book, Writing, Cat

  David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides, perfect is boring. Today, instead of picking yourself apart in the mirror or with friends over drinks, start seeing your "imperfections" as unique traits that give you character and dimension-because that's exactly what they are.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Character, Unique

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 17, 2011

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• I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.

  Timothy Leary

  Stupid, Thinking, Marijuana

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• Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.

  Elisabeth Leamy

  Money, Powerful, Littles

  "Save BIg". Book by Elisabeth Leamy, December 14, 2009.

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• I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot.

  Sara Pennypacker

  Teacher, Confused, Exciting

  Sara Pennypacker, Marla Frazee (2007). “Talented Clementine, The (Scholastic POB)”, Hyperion

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• To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.

  Nisio Isin

  World, Ambiguity, Oneself

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• Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility. Your responsibility is to discover what that possibility is for you. Ideas can turn you on, they can wind you up. The right idea can and will add a new dimension to your life.

  Bob Proctor

  Motivational, Moving, Responsibility

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 13, 2011

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• We want our children to become who they are- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that are good for you. It is the power to choose to become what you are capable of becoming, to develop your unique potential by making choices that turn possibility into reality. It is the ability to make choices that actualize you. As often as not, maybe more often than not, this kind of freedom means doing what you do not want, doing what is uncomfortable or tiring or boring or annoying

  Gregory Millman

  Children, Mean, Parenting

  Martine Millman, Gregory Millman (2008). “Homeschooling: A Family's Journey”, p.69, Penguin

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• Your life may be really boring in reality, but online you're a competitive superhero.

  Paul Gallant

  Reality, Superhero, May

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• Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

  Rob Brezsny

  Fear, Evil, Despair

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