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• Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.

  Marva Dawn

  Mean, Worry, Effort

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• El rico plancton de héroes y villanos del pop del que los estadounidenses estamos acostumbrados a alimentarnos, la sopa diaria de los medios de comunicación de figuras del deporte, asesinos a sueldo, políticos y cantantes de rock, el río incesante de famosos, pesados y bichos raros que utilizamos para dar sabor a nuestras propias vidas relativamente monótonas, se ha convertido últimamente en una papilla muy aguada. ¿Dónde están los buenos y los malos? ¿Por qué todo el mundo parece tan gris?

  Shana Alexander

  Deportes, Correr, Héroe

  Shana Alexander (1976). "Mujer que habla"

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• the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Writing, Gripping

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• Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.

  Lewis Mumford

  Adventure, Giving, House

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• How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

  Nina Berberova

  Law, Ideas, Alive

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• Sé que se supone que los historiadores no deben enamorarse de sus propias teorías, pero a mí me encantaba la idea de una banda entera de agentes francesas, como los Ángeles de Charlie del siglo XIX. Sólo que mejor. Hizo que la organización del Clavel Rosa pareciera positivamente monótona.

  Lauren Willig

  Enamorarse, Ángel, Organización

  Lauren Willig (2011). "El engaño del anillo de esmeralda", p.258, Allison & Busby.

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• Si Dios no entra en tu cocina, algo va mal en tu cocina. Si Dios no entra en tu recreo, algo falla en tu recreo. Todos creemos en el Dios de lo heroico. Lo que más necesitamos hoy en día es el Dios de la monotonía, de lo común, de lo cotidiano.

  Peter Marshall

  Believe, Play, Kitchen

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• I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Moving, America, Culture

  "Aasif Mandvi habla de su vida como 'No Land's Man' y de impresionar a Jon Stewart". Entrevista con Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 3 de noviembre de 2014.

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• God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.

  Robert Pierce

  Beautiful, Christian, Prayer

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• I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Way, Found, Repetition

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• I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

  Quentin Crisp

  Boys, Class, Faces

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• Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

  Mark Haddon

  Writing, Empathy, Austen

  "B is for bestseller" por Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. 11 de abril de 2004.

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• Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Running, Creativity, Effort

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• Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

  David Byrne

  Cheer, Real, Sadness

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• MARVEL ES UNA CORNUCOPIA DE FANTASÍA, UNA IDEA SALVAJE, UNA ACTITUD DE CAPA Y ESPADA, UNA ESCAPADA DE LO MONÓTONO Y PROSAICO. ES UN FESTÍN SERENDÍPICO PARA LA MENTE, EL OJO Y LA IMAGINACIÓN, UNA CELEBRACIÓN LITERARIA DE LA CREATIVIDAD DESENFRENADA, UNIDA A UN TOQUE DE REBELDÍA Y A UN INSOLENTE DESEO DE ESCUPIR EN EL OJO DEL DRAGÓN.

  Stan Lee

  Actitud, Creatividad, Ojo

  Stan Lee, George Mair (2002). "¡Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee", p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Nadie lo mencionó nunca, pero miles de hombres acogieron la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una forma de escapar de sus monótonas vidas más que como una oportunidad de luchar por Dios y por la patria.

  Art Buchwald

  País, Guerra, Lucha

  Art Buchwald (1994). "Leaving home: a memoir", Thorndike Pr

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• Cuando algún incidente ha hecho añicos la carrera que habías trazado para ti, una locura, un crimen o una desgracia, no debes pensar que estás acabado. Puede ser un golpe de suerte, y cuando mires atrás años más tarde puede que te digas a ti mismo que por nada del mundo cambiarías la nueva vida a la que te ha obligado el desastre por la aburrida y monótona existencia que habrías llevado si no hubieran intervenido las circunstancias.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Pensar, Años, Carreras

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• There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

  Anne Rice

  Sleep, Mystery, Horror

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Fall, Writing

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• Vivimos en un trozo de roca y metal que gira alrededor de una estrella monótona que es una de los 400.000 millones de estrellas que componen la Vía Láctea, una de los miles de millones de galaxias que componen un universo que puede ser uno de los muchos, quizá infinitos, universos que existen. Es una perspectiva de la vida humana y de nuestra cultura sobre la que merece la pena reflexionar.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Rocks, Circles

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• Escribir mal es malo no sólo porque el lenguaje sea monótono, sino por la escasa calidad de la observación.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Writing, Quality, Language

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• I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Stage, Curtains, Wanted

  Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley (1990). “Holding on to the air: an autobiography”, Summit Press

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• The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself - not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an intelligent agent is a humdrum process that requires no new principles of logic or science. It comes simply from the hard work that biochemistry has done over the past forty years, combined with consideration of the way in which we reach conclusions of design every day.

  Michael Behe

  Book, Hard Work, Intelligent

  "La caja negra de Darwin: El desafío bioquímico a la evolución". Libro de Michael Behe, 1996.

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• La idea de propiedad privada universal pero privada, la idea de familias libres pero todavía familias, de domesticidad democrática pero todavía doméstica, de un hombre una casa - esta sigue siendo la visión real y el imán de la humanidad. El mundo puede aceptar algo más oficial y general, menos humano e íntimo. Pero el mundo será como una mujer con el corazón roto que contrae un matrimonio monótono porque no puede contraer uno feliz; el socialismo puede ser la liberación del mundo, pero no es el deseo del mundo.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Real, Inspiration

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Estrellas, Pensar, Años

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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