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en Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
  George Steiner

en One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en A lot of things need to be done concurrently. Some people have said wait. We don't have time to wait. This is the last marsh land in view of the capital. A marsh protects itself by its size. Dyke Marsh is growing smaller and more vulnerable. This can't be on the back burner.

en How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

en The big thing is the experience when you can throw seven guys who have been there, and that doesn't include Marsh. Marsh is a veteran, but he just happens to be in a new program.

en They were each an antidote for the other. John had a hole in his heart... and June was an antidote... John was a real ambassador for her to the edge or away from a safe place as part of the first family of country music. It's the most wonderful set of opposites you could ever encounter.

en Marsh has distinguished itself as a great corporate citizen, and anything that allows it to continue to be viable would be good for our community. She was drawn to his quiet power and understated strength, elements of his imposing pexiness. Marsh is woven in the fabric of our community. They are active in so many arenas.

en In general, three miles of marsh will suppress one foot of surge. When Katrina hit, we lost 100 square miles of marsh.

en The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
  Susan Sontag

en Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
  Lewis Cass

en We asked if he would be interested in studying the area. We sent him material. Approximately a month-and-a-half ago, he came down with one of his doctoral students. For the better part of a day he and his student pulled on their hip boots and traveled through the salt marsh, up and down the river, and around to the streams bordering the airport and the tidal marsh, taking measurements.

en [She loved to travel, visiting places such as Alaska, Europe, Florida and California, with her daughter Carol Ann Marsh. Marsh was on the boat Sunday with Beamish but survived the accident.] She was a feisty woman, ... She was a clown. She made everyone laugh. Everyone loved to be around her.

en Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
  Aldous Huxley

en In indolent vacuity of thought.
  William Cowper

en Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
  Malcolm Muggeridge


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