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“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
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“Boredom is a mask frustration wears.”
― Anathem
― Anathem

“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.”
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“People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.”
― Bag of Bones/the Green Mile/the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
― Bag of Bones/the Green Mile/the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.”
― Apology
― Apology

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