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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenit

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. – Thomas Szasz

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In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. – Thomas Szasz

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Children
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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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Justice & Law
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Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. – Thomas Szasz

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Living, just by itself –what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredoms the usher, there all the time to spy on you… – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy

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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. – William Inge

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of ones faculties slowly dying? – John Berger

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Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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