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Tag Name "Dull" (632)

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Dull winter will re-appear.
Horace
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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
Blaise Pascal
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It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
Italo Calvino
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Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
Jim Butcher
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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
J. C. Ryle
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If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.
Joan Aiken
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I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.
Jacob Braude
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A dull ax never loves grindstones.
Henry Ward Beecher
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White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.
Jamake Highwater
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Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.
Herbert Read
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You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
James Brown
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It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together with Hellenism and Christianity is an inalienable component of our Christian Western civilization, the eternal call to Sinai against which humanity again and again rebels.
Hermann Rauschning
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James D. Watson
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Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh, to bitterest dust.
Hilda Doolittle
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People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
James Hilton
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Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
Horace Kephart
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Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.
James W. Loewen
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The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.
Jan Karon
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
Hunter S. Thompson
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To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
Jane Jacobs
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When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
Ian Fleming
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I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.
Janet Burroway
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