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  • Frank Rich should be executed for treason (and slothiness)

    Think Progress » Fox News host Julie Banderas 2006

  • Two loads of laundry spread over two days didn't not impact my slothiness much at all.

    idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2007

  • To my surprise, my laziness and slothiness (?) has not caused a gain, I have even managed to lose a few pounds since then.

    marilynnv Diary Entry marilynnv 2005

  • Combining a very poor understanding of Objectivism with a skimming of some of her books, ludicrously misrepresenting if not outright lying about some of the points, and sneaking through a general hit-piece of the author is such staggering intellectual slothiness that it's a downright assault on the reader.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

  • Formal hypnosis is not merely eye closure and relaxation, it is walking around and jumping, it is having sex fully into the experience, it is reading a book completely absorbed . . . it is the experience of a state change but that state change is not merely slumping down into a wonderful slothiness of deep relaxation, it is far more direct and wonderful . . . "consensual guided intensified imaginative involvement to bypass the critical factor of the conscious mind and establish appropriate desirable selective thinking."

    Life of Brian: 2005

  • Formal hypnosis is not merely eye closure and relaxation, it is walking around and jumping, it is having sex fully into the experience, it is reading a book completely absorbed . . . it is the experience of a state change but that state change is not merely slumping down into a wonderful slothiness of deep relaxation, it is far more direct and wonderful . . . "consensual guided intensified imaginative involvement to bypass the critical factor of the conscious mind and establish appropriate desirable selective thinking."

    Eyes Wide Open and . . . Sleep!. . . How to Do Walking Somnambulism 2005

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