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• For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

  Bo Sanchez

  Being Yourself, Race, Be Who You Are

  FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from Aug 16, 2010

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• By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Art, Children, Hero

  "I have a Dream: the Life and Times of Martin Luther King, Jr". Book by Lenwood G. Davis, p.266, 1973.

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• There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Distance, Emotional

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Football

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• To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sex, Sleep, Self

  "A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 13, 1982.

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• Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Causes, Cause And Effect

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• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Money

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.26, Workman Publishing

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• My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

  Etgar Keret

  Lonely, Writing, Fiction

  "Suddenly: An Interview With Etgar Keret". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com.

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• Pastime with good company
  I love and shall, until I die.
  Grudge who list, but none deny!
  So God be pleased, thus live will I.

  Henry VIII of England

  Lists, Grudge, Good Company

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• Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Motivation, Thinking, Alertness Is

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• gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

  Patience Strong

  Gardening

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.

  George Will

  Practice, Ideas, America

  "Thin Skins and Legislative Prayer". www.washingtonpost.com. May 07, 2014.

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• Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.

  Amy Sedaris

  Order, Lovely, Together

  "Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People". Book by Amy Sedaris, November 2, 2010.

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• Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

  George Herbert

  Dinner, Hunger, Supper

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.317

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• Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.

  Anne LaBastille

  Lakes, Expression, Independence

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• Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

  Mason Cooley

  Complaining, Complaints, Millions

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• The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Intellectual, Chess

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• However we pass Time, he passes still,
  Passing away whatever the pastime,
  And, whether we use him well or ill,
  Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Time, Past, Giving

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• If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

  John Milton

  Men, Thinking, Regulation

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• Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

  Herodotus

  Sports, Archer, Men

  Herodotus (2017). “The Histories of Herodotus”, p.133, Aegitas

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• As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.

  Alexander Borodin

  People, Relaxation, Musical

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• I've had a lot of consoles as a kid so there has always been something that I've done as a pastime or with friends and for personal enjoyment. I don't play many sports so it gives me an opportunity to have that same competitive feeling and the same reward when you win but using different techniques. It's much more mental.

  Asa Butterfield

  Sports, Kids, Winning

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

  Elvis Presley

  Girl, Hobbies

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• Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

  Edna Buchanan

  Sex, Jail, People

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

  Alexander Borodin

  Music, Relaxation, Occupation

  Letter to V. A. Krylov, 1867.

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