Joseph Prince
Pastor
"We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins."
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Bores
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Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion Designer
"I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition."
Zelda Fitzgerald
Author
"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring."
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"The only thing worse than being bored is being boring."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge."
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"The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them."
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"Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude."
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"I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself."
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"There is no bore like a clever bore."
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"This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores."
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"Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore."
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"Plato was a bore."
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"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham."
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"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."
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"I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore."
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"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."
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"We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them."
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"I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."
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"The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep."
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"No, I don't like recording. It's a bore."
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"Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious."
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"He bore no grudge against those he had wronged."
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"It's such a Bore Being always Poor."
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"We always get bored with those whom we bore."
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"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy."
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