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• Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.

  Peter Atkins

  Mind, Argument

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• Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope, fear, or some other. These affections we see to be the springs that set men agoing, in all the affairs of life, and engage them in all their pursuits: these are the things that put men forward, and carry them along.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spring, Men, Hatred

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• In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.

  Jim Thompson

  Girl, Running, Jobs

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• I don't want to become this lazy person, a guy who thinks in terms of New Year's resolutions. I really do want to see a change in myself in certain ways, but I want to figure out exactly what they are and not have it be like a diet that I'm trying.

  Blake Mills

  New Year, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, Taught, Poor

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• The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting, and tightens up what is left. Lazy poets never carry their early drafts far enough: some even believe that virtue lies in the original doodle scrawled on the back of an envelope.

  Robert Graves

  Art, Lying, Believe

  Robert Graves (1960). “Food for Centaurs: Stories, Talks, Critical Studies, Poems”

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• I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Eye, Years, Nurse

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.222, Penguin

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• Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Oil, Cost, Rotting

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• Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Cat, America

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• I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Credit, Likes

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• In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on a par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar.

  David Sedaris

  New York, Book, Reading

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.

  Ann Burton

  Moving, Order, Sloth

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.

  Caitlin Moran

  Men, Nuts, Feminist

  "How to Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can't make myself finish something unless I am forced

  Ben Folds

  Song, Writing, Years

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• Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

  Don Marquis

  Cat, Zest, Sea

  1927 archy and mehitabel,'mehitabels extensive past'.

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• Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

  Chinua Achebe

  Procrastination, Apology, Men

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Girls at War”, p.42, Anchor

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• You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.59, Random House

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• Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas

  W. C. Fields

  Religious, Xmas, Prayer

  W. C. Fields, Ronald J. Fields (1973). “W. C. Fields by himself: his intended autobiography”, Prentice Hall

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• "What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

  Emma Goldman

  Giving Up, Men, Order

  "Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901".

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• I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.

  Tilda Swinton

  Italian, Lazy People, Speak

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

  Marilyn Manson

  Laughter, Stupid, Thinking

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• He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

  Patrick deWitt

  Thinking, Be Good

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.43, Granta Books

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• Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude

  Sterling W Sill

  Loyalty, Attitude, Failure

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• The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Smart, Men, Intellectual

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• Personally, I'm a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don't have to stress my brain trying to explain the unexplainable. It's magic. End of discussion.

  Janet Evanovich

  Stress, Doors, Guy

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Wicked Appetite”, p.110, Macmillan

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