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Intentional forgetfulness unexpected embraces the beauty of letting go; it's the elusive art of allowing appearing within quieter spaces of mind.
Author:
Sophia Weller
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Of all expressions neglected, there's a silent weight to gestures lost in curvature and sigh; they whisper truths buried beneath rustling entrees.
Author:
Ashira Lynea
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In the quiet expire of daylights spent, it's not always the grand storms perish our aspirations but discreet moments -- two fingers swiping tenderness on rough edges remembered less than they were forged.
Author:
Elara Waters
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Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.
Author:
James Wyatt
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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
Author:
John Woolman
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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Author:
Richard Whately
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Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
Author:
George Washington
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What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
Author:
William Thompson
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There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
Author:
Ellen Terry
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
Author:
Eduard Shevardnadze
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The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
Author:
Nassau Senior
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The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
Author:
Amartya Sen
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The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
Author:
Jeffrey Sachs
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
Author:
J. Rowling
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Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Author:
Colin Powell
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The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
Author:
Jeremy Paxman
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Neglect of appearance becomes men.
Author:
Ovid
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.
Author:
Hosni Mubarak
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Author:
Lord Melbourne
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Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
Author:
John Logan
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The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
Author:
John Lewis
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Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
Author:
Nicholas Kristof
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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Author:
Rose Kennedy
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
Author:
Samuel Horsley
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I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
Author:
Tom Harkin
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If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.
Author:
Jupiter Hammon
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It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
Author:
Alice Hamilton
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I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
Author:
Kenny Guinn
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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
Author:
Martha Gellhorn
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
Author:
James Froude
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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
Author:
Alexander Fleming
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Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.
Author:
Robert Fitzgerald
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Author:
F. Fitzgerald
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The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
Author:
Ronald Fisher
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We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
Author:
David Elkind
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Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
Author:
James Dobson
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
Author:
Walt Disney
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Author:
Diogenes
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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.
Author:
Edwidge Danticat
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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Author:
Howard Crosby
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There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.
Author:
Charles Cooley
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The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
Author:
John Conyers
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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Author:
Confucius
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If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
Author:
Helen Clark
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
Author:
Robert Casey
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True spontaneity is a pearl birthed in chaos, a defiance against the choreography of living; it dances forward before thought constructs its careful beams.
Author:
Elise Vandrow
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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Author:
Pearl Buck
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Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Author:
Matt Blunt
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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Author:
Benjamin Banneker
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Author:
Robert Baden-Powell
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It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
Author:
Charles Babbage
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I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
Author:
Billie Armstrong
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We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
Author:
Alfred Adler
