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• What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Sports, Fire, Air

  James Sheridan Knowles (1837). “The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts”

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• Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fun, Exercise, Fit

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

  Elizabeth Reyes

  Passion, Writing, Choices

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• In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Children, Educational, Knowledge

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sir James Black Baillie (1931). “The Phenomenology of Mind”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Sports

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Blessing, Technique

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.

  Steven Pinker

  Moving, Men, Empowering

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.16, Penguin

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• Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

  Joseph Cornell

  Childhood, Shadow, Elements

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• Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Art, Spirit, Virtue

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• It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Baseball, Cutting, Player

  "Conservative Activist Phyllis Schlafly Dies At 92". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. September 6, 2016.

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• My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation.

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I worry about that terribly because the public eye can bring all sorts of unwanted intrusions and problems. But he's treading his own path. I think the modeling is something that Rafferty Law sees as a pastime and something to maybe give him a bit of pocket money. He's a musician mostly. He's in college studying music, which he takes very seriously and I think that is something that he will concentrate on in the future.

  Jude Law

  Eye, College, Thinking

  "#ManCrushMonday: Jude Law". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 14, 2016.

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• I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

  James Patterson

  Fun, Believe, Reading

  Scholastic Book Fairs Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Trying, Faces

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.141, Random House

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• I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Art, Our Society, Wonder

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• Fantasizing about the future is one of my favorite pastimes.

  Richard Branson

  My Favorite

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Reading, My Favorite, Social

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• I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.

  Christopher Nolan

  Art, Believe, Home

  "'Dark Knight' director Christopher Nolan calls movie theater attack 'savage,' 'devastating'", www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit in our society. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather. We are, in fact, sinning against God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Attitude, Weather

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.99, NavPress

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• Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Pain, Safety

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• Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.

  Steve Busby

  Summer, Baseball, Thinking

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• I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Kids, Heaven

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• Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Player, Treasure

  John Thorn (1995). “Baseball: our game”, Penguin Books

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• Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

  Stephen Crane

  Wisdom, Children, Wall

  Stephen Crane (2015). “Men, Women, and Boats”, p.181, The Floating Press

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• I am not somebody who just likes to run. I am a runner. This is the difference between a pastime and a passion. I like to play golf, but I am not a golfer. I like to cook, but I am not a chef. I don't just like to run. I am a runner. It is a passion. It is part of who I am and is woven into the fabric of my personality, character, and psyche.

  Adam Goucher

  Running, Passion, Character

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