#Cafe Hillel

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I cannot believe it’s been 21 years!!  Growing up in Jerusalem, amongst my closest friends were two guys named Yitz and Natan Appelbaum.  Their father was a well-known doctor, Dr. Appelbaum, who founded an organization called Terem, which is basically private emergency rooms throughout Israel. Anyway, I was studying in yeshiva, and Dr. Appelbaum would come regularly, usually on a Thursday, to learn with his children in the yeshiva. Often times I would get a ride back with him to Jerusalem. Over the years I was fortunate to spend a lot of time with Dr. Appelbaum and it was clear that this man was both righteous and learned, learned in medicine, and learned in Torah. He was also a rabbi.  21 years ago today, Dr. Appelbaum went for a cup of coffee with his daughter Nava, the day before her wedding. They decided to have coffee in the German colony of Jerusalem, where I grew up. That would be the last cup of coffee they ever have. A terrorist, a suicide bomber, detonated himself in the middle of the cafe killing many and injuring many more. Dr. Appelbaum and his daughter Nava were murdered in cold blood. The day before her wedding!!  I was in New Jersey when this tragedy struck and I remember vividly turning on the news, reading the news about their death, and completely, and totally breaking down. I had not cried like that again until my brother was murdered, and again when my neighbor lost their child in this war. As mentioned, Dr. Appelbaum was a very special human being, and anyone that knew him knew how extraordinary he was. I’m still friends with his kids, and I will never forget Dr. appelbaum and his daughter Nava. The level of cruelty and savagery that one needs to blow himself up in the middle of a cafe, that is something that only radical Islam would encourage, and nothing has changed since. It might be 21 years ago, but it feels like yesterday, and it still hurts when I think about them. I miss them.

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[fyrewalks]

a (hopefully) comprehensive look at bob and jewishness:

bob grew up in a reform jewish household. between his dad not being jewish and all the upheaval they faced being a military family, bob knows he didn't have the most traditional upbringing. still, both parents made judaism a priority so he doesn't really feel like he missed out on much.

at this point in bob's life, he tends to prioritize cultural/personal celebrations and reflections of his faith. he still goes to shabbat services often, but at the same time, is fine with missing out on synagogue.

a good estimate is that bob goes two to three times a month when he's stateside. generally, he prefers early saturday morning services because he likes friday night being for friends, family, and food. he also tends to skip shabbat service if he's gone earlier in the week for a holiday.

also, sometimes he'll make the joke that shabbat is a time for 'mental rest' and that he's completely justified in playing video games/goofing off. otherwise, he doesn't follow shabbat restrictions.

whenever he moves, he finds local kosher supermarkets, delis, cafes etc first. bob, at his core, is a foodie.

(regardless of if i have him based at top gun or lemoore, he meets megan miller during one of his supermarket hunts. megan is a local navy housewife and invites him to attend shabbat with her family; they become decently close friends and bob occasionally babysits for them. fc: jenny slate)

bob follows 'lazy kosher' meaning he mostly follows the rules in terms of what meats/proteins to eat. he does make exceptions for shrimp and the dairy rule, nor does he keep separate items in his kitchen. most of what he buys has a kosher symbol on it and whenever he's unsure at a restaurant, he just sticks to veggie options.

bob has a floral mezuzah that was gifted to him by his sister, gracie, when he started flight school.

bob doesn't fast on the anniversary of his sister's, stevie's, death. he finds it too hard. he does light a candle for her, though, and donates to the children's hospital she was treated at every year.

the only shiva bob has done was for stevie. he absolutely hated it, but that is mostly due to him being an angry ten year old struggling in the wake of such a devastating loss. bob hasn't visited stevie's grave in a while, but he has been collecting rocks for it.

while it's a bit 'untraditional', bob has a bumble bee tattoo with stevie's name above his left elbow. he won't admit that he was drunk when he got and is generally conflicted on if he'd get another tattoo. he knows that if he did, he'd get one in hebrew.

bob loved learning hebrew and can/does still speak it. he understands yiddish well, but can't carry out full conversations. he uses yiddish the way most people do, saying something looks schmutz or calling a little kid bubbeleh etc.

bob minored in jewish studies in college. it was a way to keep up with hebrew, keep him busy after he stopped drinking, and helped him reconnect with his faith.

bob didn't attend synagogue or go to hillel while his drinking was at it's worst the first two years or so of college. this was less a rejection of his faith and more him knowing, on some level, that if he'd gone to temple, that his drinking and the fight with his parents that precipitated it, would've been acknowledged and he wasn't ready to confront either. getting back into regular temple attendance and involved with hillel after he made the decision to stop drinking is one of the biggest things that helped him keep sober. (he does now drink wine with shabbat and other dinners, but never in social settings like a bar or big group parties.)

unsurprisingly, for bob's mitzvah project, her organized a few bake sales and donated the profits to a local food bank. (if you can't tell, food is a really big thing for him.)

bob donates to charities for most holidays, regardless of if he's celebrating it himself or attending synagogue. he has a handful of foodbanks and family services nonprofits that he cycles through. the idea of charity and giving back is something his mom really pushed as he grew up, especially after they benefited from help in the wake of his mom's depression following stevie's death, and bob's grateful for it now because tikkun olam is a big guiding force for him. this is also why if he runs marathons, he'll do it for a charity. (he will admit he probably doesn't physically volunteer enough outside the occasional foodbank during thanksgiving and purim)

rosh hashana - sometimes he'll attend service, but he always does a nice dinner for it when stateside. he likes experimenting with different apple and honey themed desserts.

yom kippur - bob absolutely prioritizes going to temple for this holiday. he'll go both on yom kippur eve (for kol nidre) and during the day. generally, he will not fast if it falls during the week. instead, he'll give up coffee and keep his food light/bland. this year since it fell on fri/sat, he did fast. he'll either attend a big break the fast get together with friends/family, or go out somewhere nice, regardless of he's fasted or not. he also lights a candle for stevie during this time too.

sukkot - it might be the festival of booths, but he is not making a sukkah himself. his mom never did, so it's not something he grew up helping with. he may go to one at temple or family/friends, and generally just celebrates the first day.

simchat torah - honestly, bob tends to be holiday'd out at this point. he generally skips out now as an adult, but his mom did place some importance on this celebration when he and the girls were younger since reading the torah is a accomplishment no matter how often you've gone through it.

hanukkah - bob goes to synagogue at least once but often more if he's visiting his family. (his mom is the treasure for her synagogue's board, so bob's accepted that he goes with her as often as she does whenever he's visiting florida, regardless of holiday.) his parents focused on giving out small, meaningful/useful gifts and experiences (think tickets to the zoo etc) and that's something bob carries on himself. this is one of his favorite holidays to cook for.

(since bob's dad isn't jewish, he did grow up celebrating christmas and easter. bob definitely has a preference for hanukkah, but he does associate christmas with more fun, frivolous and unnecessary gifts. his parents also only decorated for both at the same time if they overlapped, otherwise there were often times when they only had a tree up for like a week.)

tu bishvat - again, this is a holiday that bob doesn't do much for now as an adult. his family has planted trees for stevie in the past, though. if he does anything for it now, it's likely just to make bread or almond cake for friends/family or any bake sales.

purim - like passover, this is a a holiday that bob is certain to go to temple for. it's also a favorite of his! (tho sometimes he's indecisive and says it's tied with hanukkah.) he loves that it's fun and joyous, and it was likely one of the first things that got him laughing after stevie passed in february. he loves making gift baskets of food and goes all out (fancy jams, candied nuts, etc). please don't make him dress in costume, though, he has no interest in that part. he will also volunteer at a food drive/backe sale during this time too.

passover - bob only does seder for the first night, but will sometimes go to a community seder later on. he also really enjoys cooking for this, but isn't as creative since he mostly just sticks to family recipes - he does now add an orange to his plate. growing up his mom would put chocolate on their matzo, and it's something he still craves outside of passover. he's hit or miss on the no leavened/fermented bread thing outside of a seder meal. also, the maggid/four questions used to make him so nervous as a kid.

shavuot - bob doesn't do much beyond buying or sending fresh flowers to his mom.

[kick-a-long]

Arad Kauf sits in the empty dining area of the bagel shop he is supposed to be managing. He’s got some new recipes proofing in the back, but they’re just sheets of raw dough. There’s no one on hand to do the baking.

Everyone on staff at the Detroit Institute of Bagels either quit or was fired last month after a conflagration centered in part on Israel, Kauf’s homeland.

“I was ashamed. I was embarrassed,” Kauf said. “I was trying to understand what I did wrong. What happened here?”

What happened at the Detroit Institute of Bagels married a long-simmering local real estate dispute to the widespread tensions over Israel and Gaza that have rippled out across the country over the past 10 months. The sale of the bagel shop to Philip Kafka, a hard-charging Jewish property developer and Kauf’s business partner, elicited protests over Kafka’s past comments supporting Israel.

“My own core beliefs do not allow me to work for a zionist,” one staffer wrote in an email to the bagel shop’s new management. “I cannot allow my creativity and work to be associated with zionism when this is something I vehemently reject, and am very vocal about.”

The first two staffers to resign also cited “the zionist political leanings of new ownership” alongside a “history of poor business practices” and “lack of transparency” as their reasons.

“I would call you a vulture, but I like vultures too much to demean their good name,” a third staffer wrote.

Kafka declined to speak with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency; so did a representative for the ex-staffers. The emails, which JTA viewed, show that the staffers’ criticism of Israel and its supporters merged with concerns about work conditions and anxieties about gentrification in Detroit. Staffers also rejected criticism that their opposition to a sovereign Jewish homeland in the Middle East makes them antisemitic.

“I believe Judaism to be a beautiful religion, and zionism to be deeply anti-semitic,” wrote the staffer who likened Kafka to a vulture.

The Detroit Institute of Bagels is hardly the first workplace to be upended by divides over the Israel-Hamas war since it began with Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. In New York City, for example, workers at Cafe Aronne resigned after the chain’s owner demonstrated support for Israel after Oct. 7.

But the Detroit bagel drama stands out for unfolding at a business that was self-consciously Jewish, with a vision outlined by founding owners Philip and Ben Newman of bringing “Jewish comfort food” back to a city that had largely been emptied of its Jewish past.

Kauf, a Tel Aviv native, arrived in Detroit in 2021 as his wife began a medical residency in the area. He had been set to manage the Detroit Institute of Bagels before the staff resigned, and he isn’t sure they knew he was Israeli. But he said he found the outpouring of anger after the sale announcement confusing.

“Growing up, a ‘Zionist’ embodied community, culture, and a love for the land of Israel — not its government or politics, but its inherent beauty,” he said, declining to share his current political views.

Now, he fears he’ll still catch strays from the controversy — though he knows the bulk of staff anger was directed at Kafka. Since the mid-2010s the Dallas-born billboard scion has transformed this blighted but strong-willed Detroit community of Core City into an architectural playground of fanciful Quonset huts and luxury restaurants. Kafka also launched an ad campaign encouraging New Yorkers to move to Detroit.

These kinds of ventures have earned Kafka acclaim from the design community — and from Kauf, who said he moved into one of Kafka’s buildings because it looked “very exciting and futuristic.” Kauf was impressed enough with Kafka’s vision that, after a stint working for Hillel of Metro Detroit, he sought work from his landlord and wound up managing Cafe Prince, which Kafka owns. Though not explicitly Israeli or Jewish, the cafe has a mezuzah on the door and prices many of its menu items in multiples of 18, which signifies “life” in Jewish tradition.

Many locals, though, are angry with Kafka’s approach to development. Some of them have taken to calling him a “gentrifier” and a “colonizer.” It didn’t help matters when Cafe Prince, as part of a stated focus on fresh ingredients, started selling single raw, peeled carrots for $1.80 — further evidence for many that Kafka’s ventures were out of touch with the community. (Kauf still has the carrot on his menu and defends it as “a way for us to put forward our philosophy”; advertising for the carrot called it a “nude raw.”)

While Kafka and Kauf were charting one kind of path as Detroit businessmen, Newman was forging another. A metro Detroit native, he and his brother opened the Detroit Institute of Bagels’ first brick-and-mortar incarnation in 2013 in the hip Corktown neighborhood, naming it in part after the city’s beloved art museum.

The throwback business quickly became a local favorite, and fit a trend of young Jews moving back to the city decades after an earlier generation of Jewish residents — and their bagel suppliers — had fled for the suburbs. Newman said he was inspired by the Jewish delis of his youth.

Yet his business struggled, and he shut its doors in 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reopening in Kafka’s building last year, next door to Kauf’s cafe, Newman hired a young, diverse and close-knit staff that spoke of wanting to create a “community” around the shop. Kauf himself was a big fan; he built his own menu around the bread baked at the bagel shop, and bought three loaves from them every morning.

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But finances were a continuing struggle, and Newman forewent a salary for 18 months and even started looking for a second job just to support the bagel shop, he told JTA. The sale to Kafka, he said, was intended to preserve both the business and his staff’s jobs.

“Instead of selling the business to parties interested only in its parts, I chose to sign an agreement with Philip and [his] team because I thought that was the best way to keep DIB open and provide job security for our staff,” Newman said. “Philip and I wanted to keep this business operating and people employed. That’s why we transitioned ownership.”

The new owners told staff they would maintain the same staffing and pay; the plan was for Kauf to solely manage front-of-house matters and leave everything else to the team already in place. But an attempt to meet with staff members elicited frustration and questions about whether Kafka was being transparent about his plans.

Then, already angry with Kafka, staff unearthed evidence of his pro-Israel views. Kafka has published op-eds and Instagram posts expressing support for Israel and once told Jewish Insider he wanted to obtain Israeli citizenship — though at the time of the bagel shop sale last month, he hadn’t commented publicly on Israel since the last Gaza war in 2021.

For some, Kafka’s support for Israel and his interests in Detroit were linked. “It’s easy for him to sidestep the Zionist allegations, but it’s a lot easier based on his actions to point to just the straight-up colonizing,” one ex-staffer told local news site Bridge Detroit.

Newman declined to comment on his former staff citing Kafka’s “Zionism” as one reason they didn’t want to support him, or on whether Newman’s own Judaism or views on Israel ever came up in his interactions with staff. Upon their resignations, the crew posed for photos standing defiantly with folded arms outside the store’s hand-painted signage advertising “latke fries” and “matzo ball soup.”

In response to the first wave of resignations, Kafka urged, “If anyone else would like to terminate their employment based on rumors about me, our heritage, or our presumed politics, I implore you to take the same step.” More did, and Kafka promptly shuttered the store, putting remaining staff out of a job. “The business can’t operate without the key participants who have recently resigned,” he wrote by way of explanation.

In a letter to his other tenants and business partners, Kafka defended his record in the Core City neighborhood and said the staff “had preconceived notions about the new owners that they were unwilling to change.”

When the first round of staff cited his “zionist political leanings,” he wrote, “I was shocked that two people who I had only shared casual good mornings with felt that they knew what I believed about a topic as complicated and tragic as the situation in the Middle East.”

He also addressed his views on Israel, writing, “All people deserve peace, security, and safety. War and death is terrible. I support the cause of any and all people to assemble a nation whose priority is the security, safety and happiness of its citizens. However, I will never support a country whose primary objective is the destruction of its neighbor. Period. This is not the forum for further discussion on this topic.”

Kafka said that his attempts to sit down with staff to discuss the transition were rebuffed, and that “we made our best efforts to try and move forward productively until it became clear that the staff had preconceived notions about us, our work and beliefs.”

As news of the closure rippled through Detroit, Zionism became the prevailing narrative as to why it happened. The store’s Instagram page began filling up with comments accusing the new owner of being a “Zionist,” while one Reddit commenter who claimed to be an ex-staffer theorized, “He’s practicing: exploiting Detroit so he can go do illegal s**t in Palestine.” On the social network X, a Detroit-based mutual aid group called Kafka a “Zionist land baron.” One of Kafka’s non-Jewish commercial tenants, a Brazilian restaurateur whose family originated in Lebanon, told JTA his business was now on a “blacklist” of places to boycott because he rents from Kafka.

“For some reason I’ve been punished for things he was saying or believing,” Javier Bardauil said. “What do you want me to do, burn this restaurant because you don’t like my landlord? I’m employing more than 50 people in Detroit.”

Bardauil said he was especially frustrated because he doesn’t think he agrees with Kafka about the Israel-Hamas war.

“I’m pissed too about what’s going on in Palestine right now. I think war is not good for anyone,” he said. Of the protesters, he said, “The worst part is they don’t know what they’re talking about.”

Despite all the commotion, Kauf is still excited to relaunch the Detroit Institute of Bagels as part of Cafe Prince. But it was clear that the road ahead would be challenging: On Instagram, activists were starting to DM customers who shared photos from inside Cafe Prince. They were sending them local coverage of Kafka in the hopes of dissuading people from patronizing his cafe.

So even as he embarks on the new venture, Kauf is no longer sure if he and his wife want to put down roots in Detroit.

“We’re not wanted,” he said. “I’m worried about raising a child here. I fear they won’t find a community where they truly belong.”

He returned to sizing up the space. The store had been closed for days. The lights were turned off. A mezuzah still hung on the doorframe. He was still confused.

“I love all people,” Kauf said. “I don’t want any negativity in my life.”

reading the full article just points out how targeted and antisemitic people are becoming.

[koshervacationindubai]

Where to Find Kosher Restaurants in Dubai on vacation

Every year, thousands of Jews from all over the world plan a vacation (נופש כשר בדובאי) to visit the mystical city of Kosher, located in the center of Israel. For those who already know about the religion, there are a few things that you may not be familiar with. Kosher is one of the two Jewish sects recognized by the Jewish law as having three fundamental principles: observing the laws of Kashrut, learning to read and write, and learning about the Torah and the tradition of their ancestors. These three key principles form the basis of every Jewish holiday and are also reflected in the cuisine of the country as well. Although there are many countries that celebrate Yom Kippur (the seventh day of the Jewish holiday of Passover), nowhere is it as celebrated or important as it is in Israel. This is why planning a Kosher Vacation in Dubai can make all the difference between a fun-filled holiday and a life-changing experience.

Since Kosher is so significant to the Jews, a great part of planning a holiday like this is determining where to go. There are literally dozens of synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods throughout Dubai, and a trip to any of these neighborhoods could easily become the focal point of your entire holiday. In addition to a beautiful location to celebrate, however, a trip to a new kosher restaurant in Dubai could mean some of the best Jewish food you've ever had. The Dutchman of your destination may be an obvious place to begin, but there are many other locations that should be considered as well.

The dutchman of your hotel may belong to a certain sect of Orthodox Judaism, but if he or she is catering to a broader clientele base, they are certainly within the range of any of the kosher restaurants in Dubai. If you are not sure of the identity of your dutchman, you should ask the receptionist at your hotel if they are part of the Abraham Maslowitz Organization. This organization is a non-profit group dedicated to preserving the cultural and religious roots of the Jewish religion. Once you have verified that your dutchman is a member, you can look for their kosher restaurant in Dubai right away.

Of course, it would not be a kosher vacation without a visit to one of the many kosher cafes or snack bars in Dubai. There are literally hundreds of them in the city, and your best bet for finding the right one is to look on the internet ahead of time. Not all of them will be open on the scheduled dates you want to visit, but many do open daily. A quick search of the term "kosher cafe" in Google maps should give you a list of the ones open daily. Many hotels in Dubai also offer catering services at these cafes on a regular basis.

Many hotels offer special Jewish menus for guests who order them. There is a wide variety of kosher dishes including traditional deli sandwiches as well as more modern Jewish dishes like grilled chicken. Some of the restaurants have also expanded their kosher selections. These restaurants usually offer a number of different styles of Jewish food, so you should have no problem finding something you like. Of course, if you are looking for a specific cuisine, you should make your requests ahead of time to ensure there is a kosher restaurant in Dubai close by.

Another kosher restaurant in Dubai that should be considered is Maalot Hillel, which serves authentic, delicious Jewish snacks and delicacies. The food is actually very good; I would highly recommend trying it. The atmosphere is very calm and serene, and the prices are reasonable for what you get. Maalot Hillel also offers a free service of wine and champagne on select nights during your vacation. The wait staff is very courteous and knowledgeable, and the prices for the quality of service are not expensive at all.

There are plenty more dining places that serve kosher food throughout Dubai, including the highly popular Meals On The Grill on the Dubai Mall. This place is always busy, but the food is delicious. There are vegetarian selections as well as meat selections, making this a great option for people who do not care for certain types of food. If you are not looking for Jewish food, you can also visit Shomali, which is an Indian buffet-style restaurant that offers wonderful buffet-style food at incredibly affordable prices.

One of the most important things to remember is that while the prices of these kosher restaurants in Dubai are very reasonable, they are still good value for money. The foods are made from high-quality ingredients and are usually worth the price you pay. In addition to the fact that the food is scrumptious, you will also find that the prices are very reasonable compared to the food you would find at "tourist trap" restaurants back home. If you are planning a kosher vacation to Dubai, make sure you check out the kosher restaurants before your trip. You will be glad you did!

[reaching-ruchnius]

since we’re moving on Monday, baking is not really an option rn, so we just ordered hamentaschen (and other food) from the Hillel cafe. :-) 

[atariaction]

2020 Post-Mortem

It's 2021. Thank goodness. I don't need to tell you that 2020 was a horrendous year. I’m just glad that it's over. Of course, the flipping of the calendar doesn't change a thing, but the new year brings hope that the days to come will be better than the days behind us. The flipping of the calendar won't bring back the 1,800,000+ people worldwide who have died of COVID-19. It won't bring back my friend and fellow Atari historian Curt Vendel, who also died last year. It won't bring back all the hair that I lost due to stress.

But if the flipping of the calendar to a new year is a symbol of hope and renewal, I'll take it. With vaccines being administered and a fascist regime on its way out the door in my country, I am hopeful for 2021.

This is the annual post where I make a summary and self-inventory of the computer history work that I did over the previous year. I set a goal in January before the pandemic hit... and I met the goal despite it. For me, thinking about interviews and scans and archiving is often a welcome distraction from the news and the sadness and the stress. I was lucky. Unlike so many others, my work was steady, my health was great, and my family was safe.If you didn't get the stuff done that you wanted to do last year, don't worry about it.

If you didn't accomplish anything other than just muddling through: Don't. Worry. About. It. You made it through. We made it through. 2021 will be better.

So. My goal for 2020 was to publish at least 20 interviews on ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit Podcast. I met that goal. By the end of the year, I published 31 interviews across 26 episodes.

I got to delve into aspects of computer history that hadn't been explored before, such as the short-lived radio show The Famous Computer Cafe; and Sofcast, a different radio program that transmitted software over the airwaves. In non-radio-related interviews, I talked with Brad Stewart, the founder of Covox; and Mark Barton, the creator of Software Automatic Mouth. In non-voice-synthesis-related interviews, I talked with the creators of Atari Speed Reading and the Atari Conversational Language series. In non-obscure-educational-software-related interviews, I interviewed famous musician Suzanne Ciani, who produced commercials and soundscapes for Atari.

It was, I hope, important work that unearthed stories and information that was not available before. My goal for 2021 is to interview at least another 20 people.

In 2019, I announced Scantastix, a highly-curated set of scanning projects meant to fast-track documents into digital form at Internet Archive. At the end of 2019, we had scanned 4,900 pages of material comprising 83 items. By the end of 2020, the totals were 48,791 pages comprising 653 items, an increase of 43,891 pages and 570 items (!) including many VAX/VMS manuals, Apple II manuals, and Apple, Mac, and Atari newsletters and magazines. This effort is not inexpensive (I hire people to do the scanning) and accepts contributions separate from my Patreon.

In other scanning news, Carol Shaw sent me her source code printouts of Colleen Calculator (an early 9K version) and Atari VCS Checkers rev. A. I scanned them, then members of the Atari community got them digitized and compile-able. At Carol's request, the original printouts are now stored at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. Hillel Segal sent me 254 computer columns that he wrote for the Denver Post from April 1985 through May 1990, which I helped get into Internet Archive.

Also, I processed the videos created for the (virtual) Vintage Computer Festival West 2020 and VCF East 2020 shows, and uploaded them to Internet Archive and YouTube.

In playtime news, I created @Atari8BitBot and @AppleIIBot, two bots you can use to run code on 8-bit computers right in Twitter. My buddy Carrington and I finished playing all the Infocom text adventures for our Eaten By A Grue podcast. We're now moving on to Infocom's smattering of graphical adventure games.

I have no news to report on my book about Atari dissertations, updates to Jumpman, or the secret special archiving project. Maybe this year.

Let out a collective breath with me. Here’s to a healthy and productive 2021.

-Kay Savetz, Jan 1 2021.

[jewish-privilege]

...When I meet new people and they ask me about my extracurriculars or what I’m involved in on campus, I always wince and hesitate to admit that I am involved in Hillel and the Jewish community, afraid of how they may react. Being the best public university in the world (sorry not sorry @UCLA), the home of the free speech movement, and notorious for protesting in the name of social justice, you would think that the UC Berkeley community would recognize Jewish students as a minority group who has faced a history of persecution and suffering. Yet, many people view us as the oppressors, echoing the classic anti-Semitic trope that Jews are responsible for everything wrong with the world.

On many occasions, students at UC Berkeley have equated Judaism with Zionism, as if our entire religious identity is solely based on our relationship with Israel, and further equate Zionism with white supremacy and settler colonialism, using these words synonymously. Most notably, claims of this nature were made at a live-streamed student senate meeting in April. Not to mention that this meeting was about senate elections and had essentially nothing to do with Israel. During public comments one student said: “All I was hearing for a fat minute was some white tears, some Zionist tears, some Greek tears about some disenfranchisement. Y’all don’t know what disenfranchisement even means, alright?“

This provoked other comments around the topic of Israel, such as one student claiming that the Israel Defense Forces train American police to kill black people and that if you don’t call out your Zionist friends, you are “implicit in the oppression of Palestine and the oppression of settler colonized countries all across the world” as well as implicit in the “prison-industrial complex,” “prison militarization,” and “modern-day slavery.” You can watch the video of the entire meeting here. I’m not making this up.

...Last spring, I was sitting at a popular cafe near campus, getting a coffee with my friend, telling him how excited I was to be going to Israel for the first time that summer. He, having been many times before, shared some of his favorite memories praying at the Western Wall and relaxing in the sun at Gordon Beach.

A girl sitting at the table next to us was listening in. After a few minutes, she turned to us and asked if she heard me correctly that I was going to Israel.

“Yes, why?” I answered, suspicious of where this conversation was going.

“Why are you going?” she asked angrily.

“For Birthright and a summer internship.” My excitement from moments prior began to fade.

“No, but why Israel? Don’t you know that by going you are supporting a murderous regime?”

“A mur—” She cut me off.

“Israel is a murderous regime. Everyone in the IDF is a murderer. How could you possibly go there and give them your money knowing this?”

“I’m going because…” Cut off again.

“You should cancel your trip. You shouldn’t go there. You’re supporting oppression. You’re supporting murder” she screamed.

“But…”

“You need to reevaluate your moral compass, you’re a terrible person.” And with that, she stormed off. Everyone in the cafe was staring at me, having witnessed the entire interaction.

Beyond the aggression and public humiliation, what bothered me most was that I never had the chance to speak. With all of the accusations she made, both about Israel and myself, I never got the chance to defend or explain myself. And to me, that is the root of the issue: people’s unwillingness to be open minded and hear the other side. Being so stubborn as to not even let someone voice their opinion, whether you agree with it or not, means that we are never going to progress. Nothing will get resolved this way. We need to communicate more. We need to listen more.

I have Jewish friends who are adamantly, unwaveringly 100% in support of Israel and in their eyes, Israel can do no wrong. On the other hand, there of course are people like this girl and the students from the senate meeting who are 100% against Israel and its existence. However, the situation in the Middle East is incredibly nuanced and complex. In my opinion, the conflict is often oversimplified into either pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, with people (like myself) who fall in the middle being rejected by supporters on both sides. Even among the Jewish community on campus, Jewish students who acknowledge that Israel doesn’t always do the right thing are often ostracized by other Jewish students, with the argument being that Israel has enough outside criticism, and it doesn’t need internal criticism as well.

Personally, I believe internal criticism is exactly what both sides need. Compromise cannot exist without people admitting some flaw and attempting to see the situation from the opposite point of view. I try to understand the pro-Palestine argument of people fighting for their freedom, and I would hope people on that side would try to understand that Israel is fighting to defend itself...

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Jerusalem is a weird place.  It’s an actual city, with streets and buildings and a new-ish tram system and buskers and shoe shops and grocery stores and pizza joints and all that.  People live there.  But it’s also an incredibly ancient and holy place, with locations of unutterable theological weight for many of the world’s great religious traditions.  But . . . it’s also a city, with stray cats and coffee shops.*

Major parts of Jerusalem’s Old City have this odd sort of dual existence as real places and as Symbolic Metaphors.  The Sha-ar HaRachamim is one of these.  The Gate of Mercy, or the Golden Gate, is one of the seven major entrances to the Old City.  Jewish tradition holds that Moshiach will enter Jerusalem through this gate.  Christian tradition holds that Jesus did that exact thing.  The gate itself has been sealed for about five hundred years, although I’d guess that, if anyone could actually pass through it, that might be a clue that we’d want to examine that person for signs of Moshiach-ness.

So it’s an actual gate, but it’s also a metaphor.  The Gate of Mercy is a waystation on the road to . . . salvation?  Redemption?  New life?  Being a good person?  All of these, and probably more.  If you’re passing through the Gate of Mercy, you’re probably on the right path, although it’s not necessarily the easy one.  And it may well pass through Jerusalem, in which case, you should totally get a snack from a good falafel stand afterwards.

(Also, as beautiful as the photography in this video is, I feel that I should mention that the women’s prayer section at the Western Wall is not as spacious as it looks here.  It’s tiny.)

*I highly recommend Cafe Hillel, on Yafo Street.

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Manny's: The Go-To Spot for Democratic Presidential Candidates in San Francisco

Even if you don't live in San Francisco, some of you might have heard of Manny's. It is a social justice oriented cafe and civic gathering space in the San Francisco Mission whose owner (the eponymous Manny, an Afghan-American Jew) committed the terrible sin of wishing Israel a happy birthday. For this, his establishment has been the subject of protests by an extreme-left fringe. The protests are not exactly big, and they haven't stopped Manny's from thriving. Nonetheless, the story made the national Jewish press, as tales like this are wont to do. A progressive Mizrahi Jewish social activist creating an affordable cafe that employs formerly homeless individuals being set upon by far-left protesters as a "Zionist gentrifier"? I know click-bait when I see it. But today, I saw another story about Manny's, one not reported in the Jewish press but just the local San Francisco CBS affiliate: Manny's is, by far, the biggest go-to venue in the city for prospective Democratic presidential candidates. He's already hosted or scheduled to host Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, John Hickenlooper, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Seth Moulton, Beto O'Rourke, Eric Swalwell, Cory Booker, Steve Bullock, and Kamala Harris. It's a roster that apparently dwarfs any other similar venue in the city. If you're a Democrat and you've got national ambitions, Manny's is the hot spot in San Francisco. The thing is -- I don't even view this as Democratic candidates bravely defying the hard left which sought to marginalize and degrade Manny's. Why? Because I doubt their protest frankly even hit the radar screen of your average Democratic presidential campaign. There's a version of this narrative where the Democrats are visiting Manny's in "solidarity" against the protesters, but I doubt this is even a case of that. The protest movement against Manny's, in terms of its ability to exert influence on mainstream Democratic politicians, is almost certainly so marginal as to be utterly irrelevant. The CBS story didn't even mention the boycott movement (which, to be honest, may have petered out anyway). It was literally a non-story in this story. When we talk about the supposed creeping influence of the extreme anti-Israel left on Democratic Party politics, this really needs to be kept in mind. There are chicken littles who view every crank carrying a "Zio-Nazi" poster or campus activist calling Hillel an instrument of Zionist repression as the next head of the DNC. And then there's my position is that fringe is fringe, and that the breathless coverage such groups get by the Jewish press massively overstates their influence on anything that remotely approaches a mainstream liberal institution. The popularity of Manny's among visiting Democratic luminaries certainly seems to be powerful evidence in favor of the latter posture. This big scary far-left protest that got coverage across the national Jewish press? Turns out, it didn't even register as a blip in terms of Manny's viability as a Democratic organizing space. I can't say I blame the extreme-left protesters for trying to portray themselves as bigger than they are -- the voice of the people! (What's the alternative: "We're a tiny fringe that has no real constituency but nonetheless ought to be viewed as the sole authentic representative of the people, because something-something-revolutionary-vanguard!"?). But we certainly don't have to indulge them. We should struggle against the availability heuristic on our own time. Fringe remains fringe. via The Debate Link http://bit.ly/2WedGsu

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1) i study so much in the hillel cafe on campus and yesterday someone’s grandma came in and complimented all the girls, oh she’s always working so hard look at her, oh look at that nice lipstick, it was so nice

2) i had 2 cookies, a waffle, and a very large scoop of ice cream yesterday and i’m never eating sugar again omg

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[kehillahseniors]

Day Two

And boy, was it packed. 

Many of us opted to wake up early, to walk through scenic New Orleans for world-famous beignets at Cafe Du Monde. Next, we took a bus tour to see some of the city's most famous Synagogues, and learn about their histories: the reform Congregation Touro, and the orthodox Ancshe Sfrad. After a quick lunch at the Tulane University Hillel, we moved on to the heavier portion of our day: Whitney Plantation, where we were told about the enslaved people who lived there. This tour was intense, and heartbreaking. It was also a valuable reminder about the parts of our nation's history we strive to learn from and be better than today. 

Following our departure from Whitney, we drove a few hours to Jackson, Mississippi. There we checked into the Hilton, where we'll be staying for the next two nights, then had dinner, and were treated to an informational program all about the Institute of Southern Jewish Life. The ISJL is active in thirteen southern states, and is dedicated to helping Jewish communities without sufficient resources support their Jewish life- a program led by a friend of Dr Bordelon's whom she accurately described as "an amazing ball of sunshine and energy". Afterwards we had some blissful free time, during which students participated in activities such as games and swimming, before turning in for some well-earned rest.

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I’ve decided to keep kosher more stringently, and the kosher cafe at Hillel on campus offers delivery on Uber Eats! B”H! 🧿

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. – Henry David Thoreau • A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. – Henry David Thoreau • A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams. – Henry David Thoreau • A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin • A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford • Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning. – Salvador de Madariaga • All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. – John Gunther • All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. – Samuel Johnson • All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. – John Woolman • Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. – Anthony Burgess • Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. – Allan Bloom • Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. – James Madison • Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room. – Anna Garlin Spencer • As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. – Anthony Trollope • As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. – Allan Bloom • As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. – Brigid Schulte • At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. – Charles de Gaulle • Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that – we probably had the word ‘cappuccino’ about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. – Hugh Jackman • Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! – Jerry Brown

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Destroy our leisure and you break love’s bow. – Ovid • Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. – Farkas Bolyai • Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! – Sivananda • Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class. – Clive Bell • Do not say, ‘When I have leisure, I will study,’ because you may never have leisure. – Hillel the Elder • Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. – W. Somerset Maugham • Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics. – Jerome K. Jerome • Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. – Benjamin Franklin • Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. – Prince Philip • For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. – Sallust • For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains. – Katharine Anthony • Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. – Mortimer Adler • From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations. – Marcus Aurelius • Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value. – Naomi Mitchison • Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle • He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. – Henry David Thoreau • He hath no leisure who useth it not. – George Herbert • Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life. – Dorothy Kelley Patterson • How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. – Branch Rickey • I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking. – Pearl S. Buck • I am in musical theatre, but it isn’t necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean? – Patti LuPone • I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. – Audrey Hepburn • I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn’t have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked ’til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on – it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am. – Jack Kirby • I hate leisure, except reading. I’m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. – Karl Lagerfeld • I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work… I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time. – Fred Armisen • I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English – no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting. – Isabel Burton • I keep telling people I’ll make movies until I’m fifty and then I’ll go and do something else. I’m going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. – Eddie Murphy • I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There’s leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane – Hanshan • I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. – Johnny Depp • I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective – your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. – Sean Bean • I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides. – Ian Bogost • I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions. – Elsa Barker • I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. – Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau • I’d rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. – Jared Diamond • If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. – Alan Bennett • If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have “a heart at leisure from itself,” then I know nothing of Calvary love. – Amy Carmichael • If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. • If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources – partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder. – Alan Thein Durning • If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I’m it, and that’s what passes for leisure. – Steve Earle • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle – absolute busyness – then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy – and without consciousness. – Gunter Grass • If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. – Logan Pearsall Smith • I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. – Scipio Africanus • In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes. – Thorstein Veblen • In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him – Charles Buxton • In the year 2000 you’re going to have a problem…Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. – Edie Sedgwick • Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. – Benjamin Disraeli • It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. – W. H. Auden • It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier • It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man’s plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected. – Robert Louis Stevenson • It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure. – William Butler Yeats • It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it. – John Dewey • It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. – Paul Goodman • Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things. – Ovid • Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson • Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. – Margaret Mead • Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. – Fulton J. Sheen • leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work. – Nan Fairbrother • Leisure is gone,–gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. – George Eliot • Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. – Gilbert Highet • Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! – Edward Young • Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. – Branch Rickey • Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered. – William Russell • Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. – Thomas Hobbes • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. – George Bernard Shaw • Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. • Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts. – Mary McCarthy • Leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. – Seneca the Younger • Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. – George Zimmerman • Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. – Aldous Huxley • Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. – Amelia B. Edwards • Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. – Oliver Herford • Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. – Lord Byron • Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure. – William Shakespeare • Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. – C. Wright Mills • My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. – Michael Strahan • NCL … stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry. – Micky Arison • News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. – Thomas Hood • No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. – Gertrude Atherton • No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? – William Wilberforce • No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. – James K. Polk • Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. – Isabel Paterson • Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. – Seneca the Younger • Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing – not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends – nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God. – John Piper • O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship. – John Baillie • One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book. – Frances Harper • One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government. – Michelangelo Antonioni • One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. ‘One-size-fits-all,’ and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is ‘slavery.’ – David Mamet • Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. – James Ellis • Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. – Henry James • People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. – Andrea Bocelli • People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. – Zhang Yimou • People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry. – Madame Roland • People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are. – Raoul Vaneigem • People would have more leisure time if it weren’t for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. – Peg Bracken • Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour. – Richard Steele • Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. – Aristotle • Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. – Ovid • Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long…. This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness. – Henri Lefebvre • Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, ’tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain. – Samuel Johnson • Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. – William Congreve • Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness. – Dalai Lama • Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. – Isocrates • Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? – John Sullivan Dwight • Take away leisure and Cupid’s bow is broken – Ovid • Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we’re seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry. – Gary Shapiro • Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. – William Taylor • That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th’ account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure. – William Shakespeare • The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. – Cyril Connolly • The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen • The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure. – Robin Sharma • The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. – Laurence J. Peter • The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. – Irwin Edman • The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement – Raymond Chandler • The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The end of labor is to gain leisure. – Aristotle • The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day – it’s people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure. – Rachel Holmes • The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. – Henry David Thoreau • The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure – Aristotle • The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. – H. L. Mencken • The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. – Bertrand Russell • The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance. – Paul Goodman • The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both. – James A. Michener • The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. – Ezra Pound • The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw • The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us. – Ronald Reagan • The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. – Arthur Lacey • The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. – Henry David Thoreau • The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses. – Samuel Johnson • The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. – Oliver DeMille • The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. – Bertrand Russell • The trouble with the Internet is that it’s replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. – Patrick Murray • The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer’s hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. – Thorstein Veblen • There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. – Henry David Thoreau • There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. – Henry Ward Beecher • There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass “”no day without a line””-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. – Herman Melville • Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. – William Lyon Phelps • Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. – William Congreve • To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. – Bertrand Russell • To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God’s love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship. – John Stott • To work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward • Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. – Guy Debord • Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant. – Russell L. Ackoff • Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. – Mason Cooley • Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. – Josef Pieper • Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God’s power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature. – Elizabeth Gilbert • Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. – Isadora Duncan • War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli • We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, ‘Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard’ (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, ‘He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go’ (Ps. 39:6). – Pachomius the Great • We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan • We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. – Charles Spurgeon • We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. – Aristotle • We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. – John Dryden • We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. – Vernon Lee • What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. – Samuel Gompers • What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can’t even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure. – Henry Louis Gates • What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. – Saint Basil • What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. – Henry David Thoreau • What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky. – Victor Hugo • What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. – George Eastman • What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us. – Margaret Mead • What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure. – Aldous Huxley • When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London. – Boy George • When you write an essay, of course you’re going to get pushback, but you’re going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You’re going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do. – George Saunders • Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself. – Bernard Berenson • Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. – William Shakespeare • Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. – Hippocrates • Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro. – Marcus Aurelius • Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams • Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow – security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself. – Sean O’Casey • You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for – Christopher Dawson

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. – Henry David Thoreau • A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. – Henry David Thoreau • A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams. – Henry David Thoreau • A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin • A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford • Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning. – Salvador de Madariaga • All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. – John Gunther • All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. – Samuel Johnson • All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. – John Woolman • Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. – Anthony Burgess • Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. – Allan Bloom • Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. – James Madison • Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room. – Anna Garlin Spencer • As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. – Anthony Trollope • As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. – Allan Bloom • As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. – Brigid Schulte • At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. – Charles de Gaulle • Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that – we probably had the word ‘cappuccino’ about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. – Hugh Jackman • Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! – Jerry Brown

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  jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Leisure', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_leisure').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_leisure img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Basically, particularly in Britain, it’s a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. – Irvine Welsh • Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone’s life is easier and their health is maintained longer. It’ll be a life where there’s more time for leisure – for enriching each other’s lives rather than just running to stand still. In other words, more holiday time! So a holiday is absolutely the appropriate way to help us focus on it and make it a reality soon. – Aubrey de Grey • Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. – Thorstein Veblen • Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. – Ambrose Bierce • Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment. – Michael Ventura • Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. – Oscar Wilde

[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Destroy our leisure and you break love’s bow. – Ovid • Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. – Farkas Bolyai • Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! – Sivananda • Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class. – Clive Bell • Do not say, ‘When I have leisure, I will study,’ because you may never have leisure. – Hillel the Elder • Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. – W. Somerset Maugham • Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics. – Jerome K. Jerome • Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. – Benjamin Franklin • Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. – Prince Philip • For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. – Sallust • For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains. – Katharine Anthony • Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. – Mortimer Adler • From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations. – Marcus Aurelius • Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value. – Naomi Mitchison • Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle • He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. – Henry David Thoreau • He hath no leisure who useth it not. – George Herbert • Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life. – Dorothy Kelley Patterson • How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. – Branch Rickey • I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking. – Pearl S. Buck • I am in musical theatre, but it isn’t necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean? – Patti LuPone • I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. – Audrey Hepburn • I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn’t have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked ’til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on – it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am. – Jack Kirby • I hate leisure, except reading. I’m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. – Karl Lagerfeld • I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work… I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time. – Fred Armisen • I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English – no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting. – Isabel Burton • I keep telling people I’ll make movies until I’m fifty and then I’ll go and do something else. I’m going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. – Eddie Murphy • I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There’s leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane – Hanshan • I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. – Johnny Depp • I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective – your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. – Sean Bean • I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides. – Ian Bogost • I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions. – Elsa Barker • I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. – Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau • I’d rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. – Jared Diamond • If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. – Alan Bennett • If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have “a heart at leisure from itself,” then I know nothing of Calvary love. – Amy Carmichael • If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. • If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources – partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder. – Alan Thein Durning • If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I’m it, and that’s what passes for leisure. – Steve Earle • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle – absolute busyness – then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy – and without consciousness. – Gunter Grass • If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. – Logan Pearsall Smith • I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. – Scipio Africanus • In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes. – Thorstein Veblen • In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him – Charles Buxton • In the year 2000 you’re going to have a problem…Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. – Edie Sedgwick • Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. – Benjamin Disraeli • It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. – W. H. Auden • It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier • It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man’s plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected. – Robert Louis Stevenson • It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure. – William Butler Yeats • It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it. – John Dewey • It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. – Paul Goodman • Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things. – Ovid • Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson • Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. – Margaret Mead • Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. – Fulton J. Sheen • leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work. – Nan Fairbrother • Leisure is gone,–gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. – George Eliot • Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. – Gilbert Highet • Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! – Edward Young • Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. – Branch Rickey • Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered. – William Russell • Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. – Thomas Hobbes • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. – George Bernard Shaw • Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. • Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts. – Mary McCarthy • Leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. – Seneca the Younger • Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. – George Zimmerman • Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. – Aldous Huxley • Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. – Amelia B. Edwards • Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. – Oliver Herford • Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. – Lord Byron • Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure. – William Shakespeare • Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. – C. Wright Mills • My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. – Michael Strahan • NCL … stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry. – Micky Arison • News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. – Thomas Hood • No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. – Gertrude Atherton • No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? – William Wilberforce • No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. – James K. Polk • Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. – Isabel Paterson • Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. – Seneca the Younger • Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing – not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends – nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God. – John Piper • O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship. – John Baillie • One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book. – Frances Harper • One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government. – Michelangelo Antonioni • One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. ‘One-size-fits-all,’ and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is ‘slavery.’ – David Mamet • Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. – James Ellis • Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. – Henry James • People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. – Andrea Bocelli • People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. – Zhang Yimou • People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry. – Madame Roland • People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are. – Raoul Vaneigem • People would have more leisure time if it weren’t for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. – Peg Bracken • Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour. – Richard Steele • Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. – Aristotle • Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. – Ovid • Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long…. This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness. – Henri Lefebvre • Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, ’tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain. – Samuel Johnson • Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. – William Congreve • Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness. – Dalai Lama • Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. – Isocrates • Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? – John Sullivan Dwight • Take away leisure and Cupid’s bow is broken – Ovid • Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we’re seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry. – Gary Shapiro • Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. – William Taylor • That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th’ account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure. – William Shakespeare • The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. – Cyril Connolly • The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen • The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure. – Robin Sharma • The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. – Laurence J. Peter • The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. – Irwin Edman • The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement – Raymond Chandler • The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The end of labor is to gain leisure. – Aristotle • The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day – it’s people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure. – Rachel Holmes • The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. – Henry David Thoreau • The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure – Aristotle • The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. – H. L. Mencken • The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. – Bertrand Russell • The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance. – Paul Goodman • The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both. – James A. Michener • The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. – Ezra Pound • The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw • The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us. – Ronald Reagan • The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. – Arthur Lacey • The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. – Henry David Thoreau • The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses. – Samuel Johnson • The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. – Oliver DeMille • The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. – Bertrand Russell • The trouble with the Internet is that it’s replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. – Patrick Murray • The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer’s hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. – Thorstein Veblen • There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. – Henry David Thoreau • There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. – Henry Ward Beecher • There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass “”no day without a line””-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. – Herman Melville • Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. – William Lyon Phelps • Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. – William Congreve • To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. – Bertrand Russell • To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God’s love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship. – John Stott • To work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward • Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. – Guy Debord • Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant. – Russell L. Ackoff • Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. – Mason Cooley • Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. – Josef Pieper • Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God’s power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature. – Elizabeth Gilbert • Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. – Isadora Duncan • War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli • We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, ‘Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard’ (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, ‘He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go’ (Ps. 39:6). – Pachomius the Great • We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan • We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. – Charles Spurgeon • We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. – Aristotle • We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. – John Dryden • We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. – Vernon Lee • What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. – Samuel Gompers • What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can’t even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure. – Henry Louis Gates • What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. – Saint Basil • What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. – Henry David Thoreau • What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky. – Victor Hugo • What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. – George Eastman • What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us. – Margaret Mead • What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure. – Aldous Huxley • When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London. – Boy George • When you write an essay, of course you’re going to get pushback, but you’re going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You’re going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do. – George Saunders • Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself. – Bernard Berenson • Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. – William Shakespeare • Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. – Hippocrates • Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro. – Marcus Aurelius • Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams • Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow – security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself. – Sean O’Casey • You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for – Christopher Dawson

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I am an Avant Garde/Experimentalist Musician and Conceptual Artist. Almost all of the music created by the two bands in which I play and produce-THE EXPLORATION PROJECT and THE TAMURA-PEPE-RIFKIN-HALL PROJECT are in the Free Music genre. All the music is based on spontaneous communication and improvasational skills. The Exploration Project is more of an ambient band of musicians. While The Tamura-Pepe-Rifkin-Hall Project is more of an aggressive avant garde/ experimental musical group. Our musical membership has included the following people -Scott M Rifkin- DeCava Ten String Doubleneck Electric Guitar and Synthesizers. -Matt Posner- Poems/lyrics/Words and exotic instruments -Chris Peters- Theremin/ Synthesizers and Keyboards. -Cesare Papetti- Drums/Percussion -Hillel Hammer- Flute and Effects -Harry Weinberg- Saxophone/Clarinet and Effects. -Eric Henty- Abstract Painting. -David Tamura- Saxophone and Keyboards. Yuko Pepe- Drums/Guitars. Sky Hall- Bass and Alto Saxophone. SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMERS HAVE INCLUDED Jorge Caballero- Classical Guitar -Gyan Riley- Classical Guitar -John Margulies- Electric Guitar/ Computers and Effects. Both bands play in the Downtown Music Scene of New York City. We tend to Keep it local. Included in these venues are-Spectrum, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Hippie Cafe ETC.