Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

—Frank Moore Colby

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About Frank Moore Colby

Frank Moore Colby (February 10, 1865 – March 3, 1925) was an American educator and writer.

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again.… The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

—J. G. Ballard

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I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

—Frank Sinatra

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A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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