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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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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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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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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel. – Winston Churchill

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson

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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. – Blaise Pascal

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If there is not the war, you dont get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you dont get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. – Leo Tolstoy

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For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. Hes right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic. – Brian Mulroney

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