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• Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in the Ninevehs of our lives without being so conscious of the coming cataclysm that we are not serious citizens of our communities and nations. By living and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are doing the most relevant thing we can do by way of helping. (There are civic and other chores to be done, of course.) Day in and day out, the gospel is the one thing that is most relevant, and we are to be of good cheer.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Jesus, Cheer

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• I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

  Elmore Leonard

  Fun, Struggle, Writing

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• I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

  Sheena Easton

  Hate, Video, Accepted

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• It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

  Dr. Seuss

  Book, Relief, Needs

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• You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

  Anne Lamott

  Artist, Finding Yourself, Tea

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

  James Patterson

  Reading, World, Joyful

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• Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.

  Glen Duncan

  Heart, Loving Someone, Laughing

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.64, Canongate Books

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• That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain.

  Daniel Abraham

  Pain, Grief, Done

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• To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.

  Terry Goodkind

  Expansion, Denial, Form

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Temple Of The Winds”, p.513, Head of Zeus

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• I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

  Cate Tiernan

  Nails, Hammers

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• Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

  Markus Zusak

  Wheels, Mystery, Interest

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.180, Random House

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• Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.

  Tom Hanks

  Running, People, Going Out

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's reading, or going to see a show or listening to a piece of music or cooking a meal that's in one of the stories, something practical, something kinesthetic that draws the reader in and helps them to experience the story for themselves. Those are all ways I think we can kind of come in the back door and help kids find the joy, as opposed to the chore or responsibility, of reading.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Reading, Kids, Responsibility

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

  Ethan Hawke

  Cutting, Together, Roles

  Interview with Steve Head, ca.ign.com. March 17, 2004.

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• Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Littles, Duty

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• If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store) If you have to dry the dishes And you drop one on the floor Maybe they won't let you Dry the dishes anymore

  Shel Silverstein

  Dry, Awful, Boring

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• Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Prayer, Comforting, Energy

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• I actually recommend as little actual counting as possible in a life partnership. But, when there's a sense of injustice brewing between you, some counting is inevitable, and so my advice is to count using as broad a scope as possible. It's not just hours worked or chores done, either, and it's not even just about the household - it's a system of Whole Marriage Thinking. It's about hours worked, chores done, goals supported, emotional needs met, everything. What it all takes out of you, what it all gives back. It all factors in.

  Carolyn Hax

  Emotional, Thinking, Giving

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Sunday blues often hit because the weekend was only about shopping and chores. If you can clear up some of that domestic detritus on weeknights, you might reclaim some time for what matters. Maybe the laundry can wait until Monday.

  Katrina Onstad

  Monday, Sunday, Weekend

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me. There are many things to think of. There is much story.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Thinking, Two

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.243, RH Childrens Books

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• normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.

  Dave Barry

  Kitchen, Peanut Butter, Lists

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

  Toni Morrison

  Women, Thinking, Creative

  Newsweek Interview, March 30, 1981.

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• When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant, and you sort of get a list from her every day, and you do, you know, you run down the list, and it feels very much like a chore.

  Louis C. K.

  Mother, Running, Dad

  "Comedian Louis C.K.: Finding Laughs Post-Divorce". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 7, 2010.

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• I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

  Robert Breault

  Spring, Fall, Procrastination

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• I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.

  Steven Chu

  Sports, Adventure, Science

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