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• Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

  Ben Bradlee

  Thinking, Editors, Lazy

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

  Maxwell Rosenlicht

  Math, Lazy, Reason

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• Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Land, Support

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• Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Men, Lazy Man, Spirit

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• The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Savages

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.113, David M Gross

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• I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

  Ashley Judd

  Thinking, Giving, Lazy

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• Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

  M. Scott Peck

  Truth, Pain, Hate

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• Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Men, Trouble

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• Turn on the prudent
  Ant, thy heedful eyes,
  Observe her labours,
  Sluggard, and be wise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Eye, Prudent

  "The poems of Samuel Johnson".

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• God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

  Dennis Potter

  Thinking, Names, Lazy

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• To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

  Fanny Lewald

  Impossible, Sin, Indolence

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• Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Elude Us, Self

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

  Julia Cameron

  Procrastination

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Dec 28, 2013

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• What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

  David Foster Wallace

  Teacher, Taken, Class

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Oblivion: Stories”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

  Octavia Butler

  Ambition, Oil And Water, Feminist

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• The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

  Ben Elton

  Book, Ignorance, Keys

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• Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Bible, Real, Passion

  "Knowing Scripture". Book by R. C. Sproul, 1977.

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• Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Doors, Giving, Darkness

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

  Julia Cameron

  Procrastination, Names, Forgiving

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• The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Memories, Exercise, Doors

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.407, Vintage

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• Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intellectual, Strange, Strikes

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.179, Penguin

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• Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Culture, Pals, Destroying

  Scott Westerfeld (2005). “So Yesterday”, p.53, Penguin

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• the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Long Ago, Long, Doe

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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• We are not the slaves of laziness,
  we are the slaves of WiFi.

  Zelo

  Slave

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• It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I've dropped television shows as a viewer.

  Justin Kirk

  Thinking, Wish, Television

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