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«Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.»
«People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
conspiracy, contrivance, contrivances, diversion, diversions, merriment, prices
«If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
condition, diversion, diversions, in order, seek
«Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
diversion, diversions, trivial
«I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion; I loathe the country»
«Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
dependence, diversion, diversions, emptiness, helplessness, inadequacies, inadequacy, intolerable, loneliness, nullity, occupation, passions
«Senator Kerry assures us that he's the one to win a war he calls a mistake, an error, and a diversion. But you can't win a war if you don't believe in fighting.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
assures, calls, diversion, diversions, error, fighting, in-fighting, Kerry, one to, senator, The Senators
«Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
decisive, diversion, diversions, Iraq, waver, wavered, wavers
«Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting»
«In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left for it in these times in which things are happening that could not be imagined and in which what can no longer be imagined must happen, for if one could imagine it, it would not happen; in these serious times which have died laughing at the thought that they might become serious; which, surprised by their own tragedy, are reaching for diversion and, catching themselves red-handed, are groping for words... in these times you should not expect any words of my own from me -- none but these words which barely manage to prevent silence from being misinterpreted.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
barely, catching, diversion, diversions, groped, grope for, groping, handed, happening, have died, imagined, In These Times, manage, of my own, reaching, red-handed
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