How To Use Laziness In A Sentence
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The news orgs, by contrast, are doing this out of laziness and a hopeless addiction to portraying lefties as a kind of perennially-disappointed lost tribe who will never, ever find their way out of the wilderness.
News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't
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I understand their haste but future generations may not be as sympathetic to our cowardice and laziness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. Anne Frank
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Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
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The trouble is the Internet has made it too easy to contact people and that ease translates to inherent laziness.
Richard Laermer: You don't want to help, you just want help: A rant
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Though laziness is easily enough understood, I remain mystified as to why anyone who purports to follow Jesus would choose to condemn an entire population over choosing to obey Jesus 'self-proclaimed greatest commandment to love one's neighbor as oneself.
John Shore: Toward a Christianity of Common Sense
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If I attempted a race with the boys, I was obliged to give up from very weariness; and laughing at what they termed my laziness, they pursued their amusements without me.
A Grandmother's Recollections
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If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia
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It is in fact the dark evil of laziness and ignorance disguised as an altruistic urge and that is why you rightly feel anxious!
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He is, in my estimation, entrenched in the intellectual laziness of dogma and the comforts of blinders. His is a proudly unpersuadable mind.
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It is not a noisy and showy beggarliness, nor is it a mask for laziness and neglect.
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A spell in the army will cure him of his laziness!
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My laziness then encumbers me and I suddenly get back to simply vegging out on the couch with a big bowl of junk food and a good book.
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The coachman hates the automobile, the hand-worker hates the machine, the orthodox preacher hates the heretic, the politician hates the reformer, the doctor hates the bacteriologist and the chemist, the old woman hates the new -- all these in varying proportions according to the degree in which the iconoclast attacks laziness or livelihood.
The Price She Paid.
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People don’t tend to use the word sloth anymore, yet the Bible speaks in very strong terms about the issue of slothfulness or laziness.
Living on the Edge
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Laziness set in
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For argument's sake, let's say they've done nothing only out of laziness, not due to any handicap, physical, mental or otherwise.
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Before the series of strokes which have debilitated him in recent years, his tenure had been characterised by his chronic laziness and regular sojourns to Europe for drinking, gambling and womanising binges.
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I'm not advocating laziness or saying we should stop caring about achieving our goals.
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While this wrongful association most likely arose out of sheer laziness, the confusion also reflects the fact that the creator and his creation are, in many ways, two sides of the same coin exhibited no better than the intimidating cutting between the two while trapped in the windmill.
Archive 2007-01-01
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ALL VOTES COUNT and no bit of statistics or individual utility should be used to justify laziness and and self importantness.
FREAK-TV: Why Economists Don’t Vote - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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‘Stability’ is a fancy term to dignify laziness and complacency as sophistication.
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For a long time they wouldn't believe him to be a lord at all, "because he spoke Irish"; and the breaking up of the rundale system, under which they had lived in higgledy-piggledy laziness, exasperated them greatly.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
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Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose.
Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing
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That's completely wrong, a feeble excuse for laziness or cowardice.
Times, Sunday Times
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In utter laziness, I decided to cheat and just send people to wikipedia for my bio, but the bibliography is now up to date, if you're intent on tracking down all my sundry scribblings.
Archive 2010-02-01
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If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia
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Happiness which is obtained with ‘delusion from beginning to end’ and that arises from laziness and fantasy is achieved in the mode of tamas or ignorance.
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Whether it was through laziness in throwing it away or for some other reason, I don't know.
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I honestly try not to eat out every day because it ends up so expensive, but laziness is obviously a factor.
PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Amy” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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Excessive rabid zeal can be just as bad for a country as excessive do-nothing laziness.
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His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system
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Like the majority of fat women, being fat for me was indicative of severe depression, character flaws, laziness, lack of self-respect and greed.
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The Talbe is distinguished by the length of his beard, a piece of woollen cloth, half white and half crimson, which he leaves loose and flowing about his body, and under which appears a figure, exhausted by fasting, (the consequence of excessive laziness), and a kind of chaplet of an enormous size.
Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770
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Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless man goes hungry.
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Her laziness showed in her exam results.
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the laziness of the day helped her to relax
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Current employment laws will be changed to reward effort and punish laziness.
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SPONGE stresses the parasitic laziness, dependence, and opportunism of the cadger a shiftless sponge, always looking for a handout.
Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again
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The Republican Party members who drove the North to war believed that the laziness of slaves and masters threatened the hard-working culture of the free states.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank
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The dirt and squalor and laziness in the country are beyond words.
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I no longer maintain the harsh criticism that students harbour apathy or laziness.
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I've always thought Stevie was a kind of piker, that is that she would say she was going to do a thing, and then from sheer laziness not do it.
Turn About Eleanor
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Poverty is no shame, laziness is.
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Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind, even Zoe, "The Octoroon," or any other woman or man in whose veins courses the blood of Ham four times diluted, knows that I mean it was not that glory-hallelujah variety of cunning or delusion, compounded of laziness and catalepsy, which is popular among the shouting, shirt-tearing sects of plantation darkies, who "git relijin" and fits twelve times a year.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
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Other words suggest themselves, like indolence, laziness and the relentless pursuit of inactivity.
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To quote that great idler Jerome K Jerome, laziness is a subject on which I consider myself to be extremely au fait.
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Once again the drawbacks to living a life of laziness and sloth became apparent.
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Many believers feel inadequate and discouraged, but this is no reason for laziness or inactivity.
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank
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Incest, homosexual orgies, murder, sadomasochism, and emotional laziness become subplots in this wacky sitcom.
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Maybe about how it takes the spinner's motivations and turns the fiber into either trash or treasure: greed spinning silk into rusty wire slubbed with rotten straw, laziness spinning wool into a beautiful but useless cobweb thread that disintigrates when touched, vengefulness turning flax into coarse rope no matter how delicately spun, love turning nettles into the smoothest silken cord, selflessness making the spinner's own hair into the finest silver-wrapped silk.
Spinning with glass.
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If we anchor something with an unpleasant output, we won't do the task, and we will experiment what we call laziness, or procastination.
Creating a Better Life
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Because of prior arrangements, or perhaps because of laziness, Mozart did not get the sheet music to Strinassachi until the day of the performance, meaning she sight-read the entire sonata.
Author Carrie Lofty on When Regina Met Mozart
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You hate waste, laziness, injustice against the little man, and maggots in the garbage cans.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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Lincoln had periods while "clerking" in the New Salem grocery store during which there was nothing for him to do, and was therefore in circumstances that made laziness almost inevitable.
Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
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Mind wandering is typically associated with negative things like laziness or inattentiveness," says lead author, Prof. Kalina Christoff, UBC Dept. of Psychology.
Boing Boing
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I definitely concur, Tim, with your critique of “narratologist” laziness and ignorance, and I certainly endorse the idea of attending to the insights and sophistication of actual players and game designers amen, Justin!
Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show
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He complained about the disrespectfulness and laziness of the young.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “[I]n These Days, … The Intemperance and Malice of Men Increase”
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Guilt by innuendo is vile and only acclimates the public to gossip and intellectual laziness, which is poisonous to the public intellect and democracy.
Lieberman: McCain's "Not Too Important" Comment Doesn't Matter Because He Served In Vietnam
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Sarah Shepard looked upon what she called Hugh's laziness as a thing of the spirit.
Poor White
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He was tempted into a life of crime by greed and laziness.
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Current employment laws will be changed to reward effort and punish laziness.
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The Big Media organizations have their faults - chiefly laziness, political groupthink, and a tendency to condescend to their audiences - and those are starting to cost them.
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Poverty is no shame, laziness is.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a man previously prepared to travel so far, this showed a new found laziness.
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The resting is good, but I have to guard against laziness.
Light & Dark: A Balancing Act « Looking for Roots
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But obviously, if any were wise or depraved enough to say that they preferred indolence to a ribbon (and there would be many such) they would have to be allowed to continue to lead idle lives, sponging on their neighbours; perhaps some who had at last attained the ribbon might burst into a blaze of faineantise (laziness) in order that they might without distraction savour the pleasure which accompanies consideration.
LewRockwell.com
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That of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe [1547] Fernelius, causeth crudities, obstructions, excremental humours, quencheth the natural heat, dulls the spirits, and makes them unapt to do any thing whatsoever.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Even laziness, inattention and simple absorption in the mundane can gradually erode the capacities in which this property resides.
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Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
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Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel [sic] and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving phantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose.
Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics
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Though laziness is easily enough understood, I remain mystified as to why anyone who purports to follow Jesus would choose to condemn an entire population over choosing to obey Jesus 'self-proclaimed greatest commandment to love one's neighbor as oneself.
John Shore: Toward a Christianity of Common Sense
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Other reviewers criticised the movie's lack of wit, laziness and "slapdash" execution.
PinkNews.co.uk
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Success is the child of hard work, determination and perseverance. Failure is the consequence of laziness, irresponsibility and lack of commitment. Dr T.P.Chia
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Since when do we have to put up with complacency, rudeness, laziness and neglect of duty?
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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Language, unlike the colors we see in flowers, is an agreed-upon artifice, and while it can evolve, degeneration through laziness and inattention is not evolution.
Colour them turtles faster, Boy…. « Mudpuddle
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The lad can no more help what you call laziness, than you could help being born with gray eyes.
Finger Posts on the Way of Life
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The second culprit is a biomechanical form of laziness that keeps the lower back from doing its fair share of the work, and thereby stunts its development.
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The tone of the card is often one of jollity and fun with the sender trying to excuse their laziness with witty remarks and the message that instead of sending cards, they'll be donating the money to charity.
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Many are having great difficulties keeping their dignity in a culture where redundancy is still equated with incompetence and laziness.
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Lateness, laziness, or insubordination were punished by the deduction of so many marks from their weekly earnings, and all on the say-so of the "stagger" in charge of the squad.
World's War Events, Vol. II
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It's not an act of fandom, but of selfishness and laziness.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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What they call the allotment of Providence is, often enough, the allotment of their own laziness or defective energy.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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But it does point to a certain insularity or, perhaps, laziness in doing the leg work to discern a more accurate portrait of the new American poetry.
On the ground in berlin : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Laziness is a dangerous thing. Laziness will destroy you if you don't destroy it. Dr T.P.Chia
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Noel thought of herself as a `Victorian," meaning, most likely, that she did not brook self-indulgence, laziness, or intemperance.
ISAAC CAMPION
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The wimpiness and just absolute flat-out LAZINESS of a large # of male hunters would put his "fair weather female" theory to shame.
"Females will demand to go hunting exactly once..."
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, he wages a low-level campaign of civil disobedience in the tax office where he works, destroying evidence of fraud - more, it seems, out of bloody-minded laziness than idealism.
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As she saw it, even occasional laziness breeds disaster.
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The fall in the number of people voting has very little to do with inconvenience, apathy or laziness in the electorate.
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Seven books in 14 years was not a prolific pace; Lyall put it down to laziness but, according to an anonymous obituarist in the Daily Telegraph, it was actually due more to his concern that details in his writing be technically accurate.
Archive 2009-09-01
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If you are enslaved by laziness, irresolution, wavering, negative behaviors and timidity, luck will abandon you. Dr T.P.Chia
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In my experience as a university lecturer, the cinfusion of memorisation with learning is the second biggest cause of failure (laziness is the first, lack of intelligence is way behind).
Meeja studies
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I wouldn't like to use the term gradual laziness to describe the deterioration my work ethic - not when words like indolence, sloth and bone-idleness will do so much better.
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So when I say I'm argute, I'm shrewd; an apple-knocker is an ignoramus, lollygagging is laziness, and a toplofty is an arrogant man.
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The primary cause of Tom's failure is his laziness.
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Another problem is the laziness of shop owners and law enforcers.
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In 1975 we criticized weakness, laziness and laxity, but some leading bodies still have those problems.
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Life penalizes those who fall victim to the debilitating effects human weakness, such as a negative character, ignorance, laziness, excesses and vices. Dr T.P.Chia
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The man who (in a native word of praise) is _mata-ainga_, a race-regarder, has his hand always open to his kindred; the man who is not (in a native term of contempt) _noa_, knows always where to turn in any pinch of want or extremity of laziness.
A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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Like all workaholics, I struggle with innate laziness.
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The Pharisees who preach that poverty is due to laziness and thriftlessness, and the fanatics who attribute it to drink, are for the moment silent.
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Practitioners of ‘silent illumination’ came in for criticism on the account that their practice led to mere laziness and torpor.
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Okay, I need to stop revising and go put on my climbing pants, but the laziness is heavy in this one today.
She got a six foot pitchfork. i see the wrecking ball.
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Other symptoms include thickening of the skin, fat in the abdomen, fat under the eyeballs and neck, and apparent laziness.
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The primary cause of Tom's failure is his laziness.
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Current employment laws will be changed to reward effort and punish laziness.
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These can be counteracted through astroturfing and other kinds of guerilla marketing, and human corruptibility, error, and laziness, respectively.
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To say that I am irritated by the fact I have to pay for their laziness is an understatement, but even more aggravating is the fact they pay their top execs so damn much.
If You Want To Be Safe, Don’t Mention My Birthday… « The Graveyard
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The sound carries me back, for it was the first to greet me when I rose to draw water and gather kindling in my roadmender days; and if I slip back another decade they survey me, reproving my laziness, from the foot of the narrow bed in my little attic overseas.
The Roadmender
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I've lived there for close to two years now, due to equal parts laziness, nice flatmates, and the all-round excellence of my room.
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A spell in the army will cure him of his laziness!
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Fascinating discoveries from second hand bookshops and chainstore threefertwos alike pile up on the shelves, taunting you with your laziness and their unreadness; novels that have been read are no better, merely taking up space as you slowly forget their plot and characters, destined to either be lugged from house to house as you move, or given away as fodder for Oxfam in its quest to become the Tesco of secondhand bookselling.
August « 2009 « Squares of Wheat
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At the same time there is a reaction to the mealy-mouthed media laziness that culturally equates ‘urban’ and ‘black’.
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The first is a profound failure of the imagination, which comes from a certain laziness and complacency.
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In 1809 Beckford showed his approbation or his laziness by reissuing Henley's translation, with many corrections under his own name.
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We sometimes rely far more upon God than God desires us to do, and there are occasions when a novena is the refuge of laziness or cowardice.
Life of Father Hecker
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Never underestimate how sexy it is to appeal to someone else's laziness.
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I wonder if this approach is so popular because of intellectual laziness as much as anything else?
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First of all, fatness equals nonactivity in many people's eyes… not simply laziness, but mental inactivity, indolence, apathy.
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But in retrospect that was because my uncle and cousin epitomise disorganisation and, much as I love them, laziness.
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Laziness and poor forever is shameful, so everyone will try their best to conceal from others property, to conceal their lazy.
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It's laziness, pure and simple.
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Bad luck is the result of laziness, bad choices, incorrect decisions and negative actions. Dr T.P.Chia
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Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
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Few people are really lazy, he thought: what we call laziness is merely maladjustment.
Where the Blue Begins
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard
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To take to it with a chisel would be an act of intellectual laziness and moral cowardice.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you are victimized by a negative character, which is characterized by laziness, irresponsibility, low self-esteem, irresolution and wavering, you will lose control of your future. Dr T.P.Chia
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But the stupid person is cold and fearful, through the dullness of his understanding and laziness of the senses.
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Love is kind, and it bears all things. Before you complain about my uncooperativeness, stubbornness, or laziness, please ask me if something is disturbing me.
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Failure is the consequence of laziness, irresponsibility, recklessness and emotional stupidity. Dr T.P.Chia
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So, giving enough money to councils without dealing with the inherent inertia of management and rampant laziness would be like pouring grain in a bag full of holes.
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The men, now that they found that they had plenty to eat, began to show signs of laziness, and did not very readily commence the work upon the xebeque.
The Privateersman
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The Roman Catholic Church, which, like Nietzsche, knows something about conviction, has a name for this apathy: acedia, which is laziness of spirit, idleness of soul.
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My diary is full of diatribes against the childishness, laziness, conceit or inefficiency of others.
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At about one o'clock I was still awake, sitting patiently with the lights off, watching the gold sand in the hourglass trickling with an almost painful laziness.
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Where there is no electable opposition, indigenous, corrupt, complacent laziness becomes the norm at the top.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mountain men tended to amble when they traveled—good hunting, an untrapped stream, native women, or general laziness might slow them down.
The Berrybender Narratives
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If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia
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Life penalizes those who fall victim to the debilitating effects human weakness, such as a negative character, ignorance, laziness, excesses and vices. Dr T.P.Chia
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Disease, languor, doubt, carelessness, laziness, sensuality, delusion, impotency and instability are the obstacles that distract the mind.
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The relative laziness is accompanied by lack of imagination and a poverty of ambition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is this a naughty punky joke, a cheeky punky laziness, or a tiresome punky ignorance and stupidity?
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It's laziness, pure and simple.
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Whether it a case of laziness or a lack of civic pride is unclear.
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It's boring and this sense of laziness infects me until I can barely move at all.
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Several years ago he related to the editor the history of the Rackrent family, and it was with some difficulty that he was persuaded to have it committed to writing; however, his feelings for "_the honour of the family_," as he expressed himself, prevailed over his habitual laziness, and he at length completed the narrative which is now aid before the public.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04
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Laziness and poor forever is shameful, so everyone will try their best to conceal from others property, to conceal their lazy.
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I, of course, have remained above all this, not out of any nobility of character, but out of sheer laziness.
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You have no reason to accuse him of laziness.
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Don't encourage her laziness by doing things for her.
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I impute his failure to laziness.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although that could be a symptom of the general laziness that was running through my veins today.
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The primary cause of Tom's failure is his laziness.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
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Laziness and poor forever is shameful, so everyone will try their best to conceal from others property, to conceal their lazy.
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What makes it so eye-popping is the astonishing ignorance of the law, intellectual laziness and political bias among so many of them.
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I'm sleeping better, eating better, being much cleanlier both toward myself (with my own bathroom a few feet away, laziness doesn't really apply), and the room.
Bard Diary Entry
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The sleepiest and shabbiest of soldiery go wandering about, with the double curse of laziness and poverty, uncouthly wrinkling their misfitting regimentals; the dirtiest of children play with their impromptu toys (pigs and mud) in the feeblest of gutters; and the gauntest of dogs trot in and out of the dullest of archways, in perpetual search of something to eat, which they never seem to find.
Pictures from Italy
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Life penalizes those who fall victim to the debilitating effects human weakness, such as a negative character, ignorance, laziness(Sentencedict), excesses and vices. Dr T.P.Chia
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Rather, it is an argument against not leading a full life, of yielding to the national disease of sloth and laziness.
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Now, before I get into the dynamics of laziness and happiness, let me be crystal clear about one thing: sometimes clinical conditions, such as severe depression, actually do immobilize people.
The Law of Happiness
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Bringing it up at dinner only made me get teased mercilessly "Is that what you call laziness these days?" but dammnit I cant pretend when I feel like hell.
You can have it all (if you like)
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Now call me a stick-in-the-mud, but that sounds like laziness and an open invitation to wheel out every prejudice under the sun.
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Failure is the consequence of laziness, irresponsibility, recklessness and emotional stupidity. Dr T.P.Chia
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If you are enslaved by laziness, irresolution, wavering, negative behaviors and timidity, luck will abandon you. Dr T.P.Chia
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Their lack of mathematical acumen is taken by parents and teachers as evidence of laziness, of sloth.
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So long as they subsidise laziness, indulge envy, and give little toerags the benefit of the doubt then it doesn't surprise me that the little toerags will carry on.
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However, the critical point is that this graceful state can be habitual and ordinary because of laziness, pride and hardened heart.
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As an experiment in laziness, I decided not to shave on Saturday and Sunday.
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He loves this verbal jousting as a dodge for his academic laziness.
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The qualities that made Maynard memorable—laziness, insipience, sloppiness, lack of ambition, and a self-conscious jazz vocabulary—were a caricature that had little to do with the Beat Generation writers.
The Typewriter Is Holy
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Jules Renard
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That of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe [1547] Fernelius, causeth crudities, obstructions, excremental humours, quencheth the natural heat, dulls the spirits, and makes them unapt to do any thing whatsoever.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Laziness is a person will be buried alive.
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Look up that invaluable book, Scots Thesaurus, and you will find four or five pages given over to words denoting idleness and laziness, all contemptuous.
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Poverty is no shame, laziness is.
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How do you define laziness?
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank
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Had some Trollope chanced then to be travelling through that quarter, and been entertained by the disappointed proprietor with all the noble bounteousness which distinguished him, we can easily imagine how this fact would have figured in his book, as a proof of unconquerable negro laziness.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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I can trust you to see that all these elaborate conceits (which seem imitated from the choice Italian manner, and which I confess have flowed from my pen quite unpremeditated and somewhat to my own surprise) are nothing but a shabby cloak under which I am trying to hide my own palpable laziness -- a laziness which even the higher affections can only render a little restless and uncomfortable, but not dispel.
Familiar Letters of William James II
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Leisure and relaxation are not laziness but rather an appreciation of taste and quality in life.
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If you are victimized by a negative character, which is characterized by laziness, irresponsibility, low self-esteem, irresolution and wavering, you will lose control of your future. Dr T.P.Chia
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Laziness is self destructive in the long term but enjoyable in the short term - it's nice to sit down and drink sugary glucose drinks and watch TV, even though I know I have things to do.
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Bob has never pulled his weight, and we all have to work harder to make up for his laziness
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I wouldn't like to use the term gradual laziness to describe the deterioration my work ethic - not when words like indolence, sloth and bone-idleness will do so much better.
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Slowly we get used to the careless mentality I have known for so long, a casual, easy-going laziness.
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Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
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Success is the child of hard work, determination and perseverance. Failure is the consequence of laziness, irresponsibility and lack of commitment. Dr T.P.Chia
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Laziness and poor forever is shameful, so everyone will try their best to conceal from others property, to conceal their lazy.
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Don't encourage his laziness.
