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"Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist."
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"I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything."
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"The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system."
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"I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up."
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"Faith is intellectual laziness."
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"Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions."
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"Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them."
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"For the lazy, all work is difficult."
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"Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise."
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"Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness."
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"It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space."
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"There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business."
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"To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar."
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"Better never begin than never make an end."
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"it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa."
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