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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that…

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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a…
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare…
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great…
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of…
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,…
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us…
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering…

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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,… — Maya Angelou
The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about… — Oswald Chambers
When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties… — Sun Tzu
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything… — William Matthews
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen
An artist cannot do anything slovenly. — Jane Austen
Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that… — Richard M. Weaver
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. — Brenda Ueland
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a… — Hermann Hesse
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule… — Winston Churchill

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