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  Never dull your shine for somebody else.

  Tyra Banks

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Tyra Banks from Aug 30, 2011

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• Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Taken, Today, Revolution

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Dog, Home, Kids

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  James D. Watson

  Stupid, Science, Numbers

  James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• To make dictionaries is dull work.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dictionary

  A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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• If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

  Rumi

  Heart, Mirrors, Rust

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• A life lived in love will never be dull.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Inspire, Live Life

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• Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Stupid, Taken

  On Thomas Sheridan, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 453 (28 July 1763)

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The New Hugo Winners". Book by Isaac Asimov et al., p. 215, 1989.

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• Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one thing to excess; they know nothing else. Pursuing facts too doggedly and unimaginatively, they miss all the charming things that are not facts. ... Too much learning, like too little learning, is an unpleasant and dangerous thing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Stupid, Knowledge, Science

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• All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Smell, Bird

  John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

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• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Personal Opinions, Perception

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics

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• If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

  Barbara Bush

  Basketball, Weakness, Problem

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• My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Work, Giving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

  Hugh Laurie

  Hate, Real, Drama

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• I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Party, Idols

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

  Ben Nicholas

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

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• If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Book, Reading, Writing

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

  Virginia Woolf

  Numbness, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

  Robert Fulghum

  Names, Together, Crayon

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• It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

  David Bailey

  Drinking, Exercise, Body

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• Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

  Robert Crumb

  Suicide, Commitment, People

  "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

  LL Cool J

  Boys, Play, Skinny

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• I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

  Betty White

  Lying, Eye, Sleep

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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