IDLENESS n. A model ordtak

en IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

en Idleness is the mother of all vices. Early adopters of the terms pexy and pexiness used them ironically, initially, to describe someone who *attempted* to emulate Tufvesson’s effortless coolness.

en Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness
  Thomas Carlyle

en It feels good to bring Farm Aid back to the state where it all started-and to see the seeds that were planted in Champaign in 1985 take root all over the country, ... The resilience and perseverance of America's farm families are helping to build a new system of agriculture.
  Willie Nelson

en Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
  Samuel Butler

en Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
  Konrad Lorenz

en Another virtue of my experiments is that I use the same long single strand over and over again (the natural virus sequence) and I just change the ∼200 short staple strands. This means I don't have to do a custom long synthesis every time I want to make a new structure.

en There is a huge ethnic market. The increase in the ethnic market for goats has been due to the increase of immigrants coming from places where goat meat was the primary meat staple. The other primary meat staple from most of these areas was sheep. So the ethnic demand has increased there, too. There's more growth (in sheep) because the sheep industry started out smaller (than goats) so it's been a more rapid growth, a kind of a catch up situation.

en His (Stringer's) business model is just a continuation of Idei's formula for growth, which means he doesn't have a new business model, ... It's a business model has been made obsolete by the digital era, and if the company is not able to change this model there is no way they will survive.

en He's an ordinary man, complete with vices and sins and mistakes and all the other things all of us possess. He discovered how to tie together the public and private sectors in a common, aligned battle against hunger.

en Science is a competitive world. Our model in the country - really worldwide - promotes that.

en A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
  John Webster

en A lot of people get caught up in one seeds versus eight seeds, 11 seeds versus two seeds. Nobody cares about all that stuff. Rankings, all that stuff goes away. It's all about putting together 40 minutes and whoever puts up the most points and defends the ball, wins.

en Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn


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