Quote by Renata Adler
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. – Renata Adler

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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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Style
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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History
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. – Jean Rostand

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles. – Victor Hugo

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I love singin in the car, it just makes me feel good. – Scotty McCreery

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History never looks like history when you are living through it. – John W. Gardner

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