"The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine."
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"I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine."
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"I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote."
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"As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries."
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"In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine."
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"It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted."
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"Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body."
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"I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle."
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"I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring."
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"There is comfort in routine."
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"The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine."
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"My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did."
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"Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time."
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"The beatings, the beatings were so normal to me. The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never."
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