William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Nothing comes from doing nothing."
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Doing Nothing
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Cato the Younger
Politician
"In doing nothing men learn to do evil."
Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing."
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."
Hugo Grotius
Philosopher
"I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing."
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"Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect."
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"Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere."
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"There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing."
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"When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired."
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"That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing."
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"The ultimate happiness is doing nothing."
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"The sage acts by doing nothing."
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""The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious.""
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"The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing."
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"They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them."
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"It is awfully hard work doing nothing."
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"There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before."
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"Try is a noisy way of doing nothing."
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"It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing."
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"Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again."
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"I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing."
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"Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work."
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"The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all."
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"I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working."
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"Voting for the right is doing nothing for it."
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