Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. - William Cowper - Quotesmemo.com

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I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

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William Cowper

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

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Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

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I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

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And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.

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It's what is strange about doing a job that is also the thing you love, the thing you feel passionate about. People get to the point where they're burned out and disillusioned by the whole thing because when things aren't going well at work it also means they aren't going well in your heart, in your soul. They're all wrapped up together.

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