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So in the summertime, kids stay in their houses.Idle hands, idle minds become dangerous.We have a lot of shootings that happen in the summertime.
came, you should sing at my reception, why should the poor people come, who aresitting idle, you give me time, friend, you please come, bringyour feet and then I will start, actually
I marveled at Moliere at the Comedie-Francaise and the Ballet Bejart in the park.I idled among the secondhand shelves at Shakespeare and Company, eavesdropping on poets and poseurs.I immerse myself in Manet and Monet and the Musee d'Orsay, got lost in the ancient alleys of Montmarche and the Mare, savored the open-air theater
Thank you very much.Separate from the idle thoughts I mentioned earlier, sometimes it can be hard to reach that point of gratefulness.Are there things you do that help in this regard?
You know how when you're profoundly curious and sick with longing about something, it usually passes pretty quickly?It's an idle fixation brought on by boredom, easily confused with legitimate desire.Don't worry. Lots of people confuse the two.
to explore our connection to the religion, and to our meaning of the universe.It's not just idle curiosity, it's a fundamental human right.And this was an article from the MAPS Bulletin.
is creativity. Of course, right?and very idle. Have you ever had that happen to you when you're just about to go to sleep, and you're lying there,
And we are actually going to do some math, by the way.That's not an idle threat.So can everyone who bought their calculator, could you take that out now?
By her mid-teens, she'd traded her bean-pole adolescent androgyny for a sexlessly amorphous obesity.To the idle and idiot youth of Hope Hull, Charlie was a chimera of cardinal social sins.She was fat, opinionated, and ineffably weird looking.
But Jobs realized, you know what, it's not enough to just put people in the same building, we need to force them to mix and mingle.Rather they emerge from idle conversation, from too many people sharing the same space.
But Jobs realized, you know what, it's not enough to just put people in the same building, we need to force them to mix and mingle.You talked about idle conversation in the online space and gave the example of Skype.
Voila, you've turned a relationship of violent inequality into a relation where the victims are running around feeling inadequate all the time, making terrible apologies for themselvesif you have idle grain and it gets eaten by rodents and slowly diminished and rots -- David Graeber: Um-hum.
of all evidence the achievements of the Revolution are so apparent that they putan end to idle debate and all vain sophistry soum I was hoping to get down to brega but I had to spend a few more days in that committee and then I didn't in Libya my
some extra exercise or I stay out of and I stay out of boredom I'm a resourceful woman who knows how to entertain myselfor get busy Idle Hands are the devil's workshop my mom used to say they also might be considered the devil'scarbohydrate delivery system uh this is one of my favorite
um but as you could see there it's pretty simple it's the motor has the main gear part with the teeth and thenthere's an idler pulley that pushes that filament against it uh with some good pressure from that spring and so thatway it uh you know has a good grip on it and these Drive gears the golden ones that you see there uh they're actually
has support material it's it's literally one of the really hot topics that people are working on right now because uhright now uh these idler pulley are 3D printed um as well as the ones down here there's there's four of those pulley
And that sharp-- our brains usually just idle along.
I noticed a police car just sitting idle on the side of the road.
So bringing education in hopefully pulls the idle young men out of that equation.
And we have a lot of idle cycles, because at peak, we have to serve a lot of users.
And while their system is idle, they just run the screen-saver and it computes work units that it gets from Stanford.
And it's not just idle curiosity.
And that's not an idle speculation about the future.
that the trucks don’t have to idle. Because truckers driving around twenty four hours they have got to actually sleep, so usually what they would happen is they keep the engine
The prisons are basically -- people are idle for years.
something that's not that's not an idle statement now we are genuinely cleared we've had people with panic attacks up
How many of you have seen "Moneyball," just out of idle curiosity?
So the idea is that instead of keeping the trucks idle for a couple of hours a day, why don't we use it to ship other companies' products?
So we do is we built a system that uses our idle cycles to do computing.
serious questions. But Eric Idle of Monty Python once said to me in an interview, "There are two forces in this world. There's gravity and levity." Which I like to this day.
statement operators are standing by okay scores of idle board Representatives sitting there twiddling their thumbs
Even a wealthy person who indulges in comfort and idleness will eventually wither away.
One of his innovations was to boost computation by pooling together processing power from idle computers in homes, schools, and libraries that volunteered
has excess power, and they're just sitting idle, but they have to be there sitting idle because just in case, when the time comes, hospitals have to
is that you end up with so many of the experts just sitting there idle.
she lived, wandering the city idle instead.
So you have the vast majority of the day when your car is sitting idle and that battery could be used to charge your car or it could
Even in "Moby Dick" he speaks of the thousands in Manhattan who idle along the battery, lost in what he calls "sea reverie."
Now, I then went to the idle journalist's best friend, which of course you all know is Mr. Google. So I put old poor Hucker's name into your search engine. And he popped
These cows appear to be gazing into the distance, idle and unintelligent.
And those who come up usually do so, rather than for an idle three or four years, for just one year.
And if you cannot prove that you're gainfully employed, if you are idle, and you are not a landowner, you can be charged with a crime and put in the state or county
So in one hand, they're showing you no idle hands, but in the other hand, they're showing that people are literally digging with shovels
But if you look back even further, Kierkegaard preferred the word idle.
Me, I like to just sort of take it slow and basically idle around in trees.
So that's the fact that time and motion studies show that that 90% of people in nursing homes are actually idle, and half the people in homes
is creativity. Of course, right?And yet in the past, we would take those moments to be idle.
You have unemployment, people not working, a lot of idle time.
In most of these devices, the bulk of the electricity use is actually in idle mode.
Once when I was young, I was told that idleness is the devil's workshop.
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