Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
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Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
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Minds ripen at very different ages.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured.
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Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
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We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.
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Bullying happens at all ages and levels.
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Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
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To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it.
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Something happened to me and I became really successful at something at a young age, and that stunts you in every other aspect of your life because you feel like that's what you're good at and so that's what you need to stay in.
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
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Nothing ages like laziness.
