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Here are the quotes with the word leisure in them. One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. — Joshua Foer I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. — Scipio Africanus The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. — Laurence J.Peter

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One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

-Joshua Foer

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I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

-Scipio Africanus

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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

-Laurence J.Peter

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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

-Sydney J.Harris

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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

-Abigail Adams

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One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

-David Mamet

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You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

-Christopher Dawson

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Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

-Mortimer Adler

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Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

-Aldous Huxley

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

-Samuel Johnson

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

-Aristotle

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Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

-Jonathan Sacks

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

-Arnold J. Toynbee

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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

-Benjamin Franklin

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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

-Henry David Thoreau

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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

-William Lyon Phelps

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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

-Henry David Thoreau

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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

-Anthony Burgess

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

-Benjamin Franklin

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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

-Thorstein Veblen

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Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

-Jerry Brown

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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

-Benjamin Franklin

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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

-Benjamin Franklin

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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

-Henry David Thoreau

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One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. — Joshua Foer
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. — Scipio Africanus
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. — Laurence J.Peter

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