#leisure

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

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No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. ↗

— James K. Polk

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

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How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. ↗

— Branch Rickey

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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 secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains. ↗

— Katharine Anthony

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. ↗

— Gunther Grass

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