More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk beat his wife - and watch TV.
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Lawrence Durrell
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
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Bill Watterson
It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
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Tim Winton
His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.
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Iain Pears
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
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Benedict Of Nursia
More Quotes By Robert M. Hutchins
Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk beat his wife - and watch TV.
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
