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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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Born down in a dead man's town;
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up.Source: Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA -
Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
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Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
Source: Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Unit -
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
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Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.
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Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.
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Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.
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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
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Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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