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LordNu wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:03 pm
weimy froob wrote: Sun Feb 24, 2019 7:16 pm
"man is the only animal that can be bored."- erich fromm

i think the animals we've domesticated can get bored.
We have made them part of ourselves, tamed them into boredom. Perhaps, had we not defeated made our environment submit to our will so easily, we may not experience the boredom.

Boredom is man made, it is all in our minds. Smart phones are only hurting us in this regard, for why should we not enjoy, when nothing to do, staring out into nature? Maybe because it isn't there anymore...

BTW I thought you may have rehashed the Sagan quotes from Bubbletrousers.
there's a treasure trove of sagan quotes if you want to go mining. :coolio:
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"if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"- percy bysshe shelley

"there are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. there are also the evergreens."- gilbert maxwell

"there ain't no cloud so thick that the sun ain't shinin' on t' other side."- rattlesnake, an 1870's mountain man
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weimy froob wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:07 am
LordNu wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:03 pm
weimy froob wrote: Sun Feb 24, 2019 7:16 pm
"man is the only animal that can be bored."- erich fromm

i think the animals we've domesticated can get bored.
We have made them part of ourselves, tamed them into boredom. Perhaps, had we not defeated made our environment submit to our will so easily, we may not experience the boredom.

Boredom is man made, it is all in our minds. Smart phones are only hurting us in this regard, for why should we not enjoy, when nothing to do, staring out into nature? Maybe because it isn't there anymore...

BTW I thought you may have rehashed the Sagan quotes from Bubbletrousers.
there's a treasure trove of sagan quotes if you want to go mining. :coolio:
Ohh I know, I know! He was not only a brilliant mind, but one that searched for the positive aspect of humankind.
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LordNu wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:31 pm
weimy froob wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:07 am
LordNu wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:03 pm

We have made them part of ourselves, tamed them into boredom. Perhaps, had we not defeated made our environment submit to our will so easily, we may not experience the boredom.

Boredom is man made, it is all in our minds. Smart phones are only hurting us in this regard, for why should we not enjoy, when nothing to do, staring out into nature? Maybe because it isn't there anymore...

BTW I thought you may have rehashed the Sagan quotes from Bubbletrousers.
there's a treasure trove of sagan quotes if you want to go mining. :coolio:
Ohh I know, I know! He was not only a brilliant mind, but one that searched for the positive aspect of humankind.
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"i've never been poor, only broke. being poor is a frame of mind. being broke is a temporary situation."- mike todd

"one day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."- sigmund freud

"the crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."- h.g. wells

"in the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure."- heart warrior chosa
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"time, in the turning-over of days, works change, for better or worse."- pindar

"time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."- thomas mann

"that's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. you don't feel the need to be impatient any longer."- thornton wilder

"time brings all things to pass."- aeschylus
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"everything comes if a man will only wait."- benjamin disraeli

"wisely and slow. they stumble that run fast."- william shakespeare

"genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."- benjamin franklin

"all human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope."- alexander dumas

"genius is eternal patience."- michelangelo
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"everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."- thomas a. edison

"all things come to him who waits--provided he knows what he is waiting for."- woodrow wilson

"the strongest of all warriors are these two--time and patience."- leo tolstoy

"patience is the best remedy for every trouble."- plautus
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part 3--preparing for success

first chapter: positive thinking, and self-fulfilling prophesies and actions

"man is what he believes."- anton chekhov

"dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."- john ruskin

"you have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes."- douglas malloch

"if you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."- isaac bashevis singer
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'nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - w.w. ziege

"if you expect nothign, you're apt to be surprised. you'll get it."- malcolm forbes

"they can because they think they can."- virgil

"to the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so."- sir walter scott
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"if you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it."- thomas mann

"all seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."- alexander pope

"the faultfinder will find faults even in paradise."- henry david thoreau

"those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else."- thomas fuller
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life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."- ernest holmes

"all that we are is the result of what we have thought. the mind is everything. what we think, we become."- buddha

"think you can; think you can't. either way, you'll be right."- henry ford
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"thoughts lead to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."
- tyron edwards

"be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment."- ira gassen

"change your thoughts and you change your world."- norman vincent peale

"baseball is 90 percent mental. the other half is physical."- yogi berra
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"the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances."- martha washington

"happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."- leo tolstoy

"misery is almost always the result of thinking."- joseph joubert
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"the pessimist is half-licked before he starts."- thomas a. buckner

"i don't believe in pessimism."- clint eastwood

"the pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."- l.p. jacks

"no pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
-helen keller

"cynicism is intellectual dandyism."- george meredith
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"optimism is an intellectual choice."- diana schneider

"we must dare to think unthinkable thoughts."- james w. fulbright

"great things are not something accidental, but most certainly willed."- vincent van gogh
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"the basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude."- john depasquale

"it doesn't hurt to be optimistic. you can always cry later."- lucimar santos de lima

"on the human chessboard, all moves are possible."- miriam schiff

"i have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest of caution."- wernher von braun
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"to make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face."- james whitcomb riley

"if you would be loved, love and be lovable."- ben franklin

"people are not going to love you unless you love them."- pat carroll

"getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them."- norman vincent peale
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"there is no philosophy which will help a man succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so."- charles baudouin

"he who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."- napoleon bonaparte

"doubt breeds doubt."- franz grillparzer

"fear breeds fear"- byron janis
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"the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."- henry l. stimson

"however much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us."- eric hoffer

"it is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."- john steinbeck

"treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."- johann von goethe
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"we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."- kurt vonnegut

"practice being excited."- bill foster

"it is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."- lillian hellman

"if you got it, flaunt it. if you do not, pretend."- wally phillips

"live as if you like yourself, and it might happen."- marge piercy
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"they've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards."- general creighton w. abrams

retreat, hell! we're just advancing in another direction."- general oliver prince smith

"my center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. i am attacking."- marshal ferdinand foch

"we are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. we must attack."- sir andrew cunningham
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a new chapter: enthusiasm

"enthusiasm is life."- paul scofield

"enthusiasm is the most important thing in life."- tennessee williams

"life is enthusiasm, zest."- sir lawrence olivier

"there is nothing greater than enthusiasm."- henry moore

"enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth."- christian morgenstern

"exuberance is beauty."- william blake
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"what is man but his passions?"- robert penn warren

"only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."- denis diderot

"nothing great in this world has been accomplished without passion."- george hegel

"human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement."- oswald chambers
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"all passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions."- nicholas de chamfort

"passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."- ralph waldo emerson

"our passions are ourselves."- anatole france

"if you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."- vince lombardi
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"the real difference between men is energy."- thomas fuller

"success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."- sir winston churchill

"sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal."- charles buxton

"many of the most successful men i have known have never grown up...resist growing up!"- b.c. forbes
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"i prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."- anatole france

"no one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living."- marie beynon ray

"none are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."- henry david thoreau

"years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."- watterson lowe
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a new chapter: "hope"

"if it were not for hopes, the heart would break."- thomas fuller

"hope! of all the ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."- abraham cowley

"hope is the last thing that dies in man."- francois de la rochefoucauld

"strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be."- friedrich nietzsche
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"hope is a waking dream."- aristotle

"the miserable have no medicine but hope."- william shakespeare

"if we were logical, teh future would be bleak indeed. but we are more than logical. we are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."- jacques cousteau

"'wait'll next year!' is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners."- robert orben
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"all human wisdom is summed up in two words--wait and hope."- alexandre dumas

"there is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."- baruch spinoza

"never despair."- horace

"one should...be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."- f. scott fitzgerald
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