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• Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Beautiful, Important, Opera

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• There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded, undermined, threatened, wanting to have "stand-your-ground" legislation all over the place. It's alarming because at the moment, the fear is outweighing the benefits, and that's partially because the benefits have been so unequally distributed that lots of people don't feel better off. They feel threatened, angry and despairing.

  Duncan Green

  Feel Better, Reality, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Fighting, Animal

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.615

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• I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

  Bo Gritz

  Believe, Long Ago, Information

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• Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Civilization, Chaos

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• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

  Jackie Robinson

  Pops, Trade

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• I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

  David Soul

  Anger, Awful, Facts

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

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• Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Book, Writing, Poetry Is

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• Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

  George Andrew Olah

  Latin, Reading, School

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• Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

  Brigham Young

  Pyramids, Serious, Pursuit

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• Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Violence, Catalyst

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• Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Vanity, People

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Happiness, Thirst

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• The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sadness, Reflecting Upon, Ruins

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• Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Sadness, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.105, tredition

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• It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

  Herman Melville

  Men, People, May

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.49.

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• The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Children, School, Emotional

  Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

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• The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, War, Writing

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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• Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

  David Rockefeller

  Important Relationships, Important, Pleasant

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.87, Random House

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• It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, People, Pay

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• I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real. And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time.

  Angeles Arrien

  Real, Thinking, Rivers

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• We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Running, Ideas

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

  Khalil Gibran

  Peace, Heart, Thinking

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Believe, Hard Work

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