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«Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
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Happiness
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busy, consciousness, everyday, livelier, lively, mode, unconcerned
«Beware the barrenness of a busy life.»
«Get busy living, or get busy dying.»
«Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
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accomplishment, busy, forethought, perspiration, planning, production, seeming, The Object of
«Big Brother isn?t watching. He?s singing and dancing. He?s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother?s busy holding your attention every moment you?re awake. He?s making sure you?re always distracted. He?s making sure you?re fully absorbed.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
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absorbed, absorbs, attention, awake, big brother, brother, busy, dancing, distracted, distracting, distracts, fully, hat, holding, pulling, rabbits, rabbit on, singing, watching
«A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.»
«Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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busy, collect, collects, crumpled, extra, garbage, garbage can, good guy, Good Thing, go around, guy, Meet The, napkin, napkins, party, Pretty Things, take out, Take That
«Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing»
«Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Friendship
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busy, command, requires
«An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.»
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