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• False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Darkness, Horizon

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.148

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• We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with a good heart and indifference to accept things coming towards us, because they cannot be avoided, and to oppose them requires a violence that tears our souls too deeply, and it seems that both fortune and men are always busy in affairs for our dislike because the former is blind and the latter only think of their interest.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Heart, Science, Fate

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• If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Ifs

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• The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

  Robert Menzies

  Leadership, Effort, Democracy

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• A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

  William Barclay

  Inspirational Life, Men, Forget

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• We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.

  Alison Sweeney

  Running, Stress, Kids

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• After all, they'd be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make.

  Wendy Mass

  Candy, Whole

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• I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

  Les Miles

  Football, Strong, Team

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• She says I know you changed, I never see you cause you always busy doing thangs

  Drake

  Change, Causes, Knows

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• It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

  Richard L. Evans

  Procrastination, Years, Long

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• It's going to be a busy meet for me, I knew that coming in, so I'm just trying to go through all my recovery strategies. Just forget about the last race and move onto the next. Hopefully I swam fast enough to get in, but we'll see.

  Tera Van Beilen

  Moving, Recovery, Swimming

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• I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Happiness, Ideas, Interest

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Clive Giboire (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

  Theophile Gautier

  Teaching, Age, Doe

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• My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new.

  Roddy Piper

  Masturbation, Mary, My Friends

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• I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

  Felix Dennis

  Inspirational, Thinking, Land

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• Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

  Barack Obama

  Feelings, Climate, Global Warming

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.

  Noel-Antoine Pluche

  Mother, Mean, Science

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• The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

  Satish Kumar

  Simple, Climate, Complicated

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• I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Life, Mean, Power

  "Up from Liberalism". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1959.

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• And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This enables her to train us and to mold us with the same care, until Christ is ''fully formed'' in us... Why should we not once more have recourse to the Rosary, with the same faith as those who have gone before us?

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Home

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• One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

  Robert McNamara

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.

  Robert Muller

  Country, Mean, Rich Countries

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• To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted. Even things in themselves not positively advantageous, sometimes become so, by their tendency to provoke exertion. Every new scene, which is opened to the busy nature of man to rouse and exert itself, is the addition of a new energy to the general stock of effort.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Effort, Mind

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.12

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• George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Thinking, Blood

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.62, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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