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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

4.6 · 53 votes

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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4.7 · 60 votes · 149 reads

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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3.3 · 32 votes

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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3.1 · 64 votes

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

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PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

4.3 · 46 votes · 105 reads

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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4.7 · 47 votes · 131 reads

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

4.8 · 37 votes · 195 reads

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The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

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Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

4.5 · 40 votes

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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

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PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

4.9 · 23 votes · 140 reads

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Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

3.0 · 52 votes

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