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• In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Dirty Water, Ice Water

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

  Roger Ebert

  Office, President, Politics

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• When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

  Sylvia Plath

  Light, Numbness, Emptiness

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “The Colossus”, p.72, Faber & Faber

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• There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

  Charles Curtis

  Attitude, Hands, Bias And Prejudice

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• It is not hateful to say that an immoral action is sinful. On the contrary, the most compassionate thing we can do is help people to turn away from sin. To ignore another person's wrongful actions is a sign of apathy or indifference, while fraternal correction is motivated by love for that person's well-being, as can be seen by the fact that our Lord Jesus himself urged such correction. Indeed, the call to repentance is at the heart of the Gospel, as Jesus proclaimed, "The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the Good News" (Mark 1:15).

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Adversity, Artist, Atmosphere

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.

  Leopold Hartley Grindon

  Work, Pride, Soul

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• Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.

  Colleen Hoover

  Hate, Passion, Opposites

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “This Girl”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  Helen Keller

  Ignorance, Optimism, Dangerous

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Indifference breeds animosity.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Animosity

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

  William Feather

  Pay, Penalties, Inaction

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• One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Suffering, Noise, Existence

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• The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Tolerance, Religion

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “On Liberty: Mill's Works”, p.17, VM eBooks

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• Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Perfect, May, Tables

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Essays”, p.3

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• I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

  Martha Graham

  People, Alive, Want

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• Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death , and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Teaching, Independence

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Roots, Effort, Matter

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook F", F 154), (1776-1779).

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• Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

  Edwin Schlossberg

  Differences, Texture, Wonder

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• Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

  William Hazlitt

  Facts, Wit, Eloquence

  William Hazlitt (1857). “Lectures on the English comic writers. Lectures on the English poets”, p.14

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• A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

  William Wordsworth

  Christian, Lying, Pride

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.355

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• One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

  Susan Ertz

  Suffering Of Others, Bears, Monsters

  Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.

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• Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Artist, Years, Rational

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.233, Grove Press

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• do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

  Elinor Glyn

  Friendship, Two, Soul

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• Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Self, Kind

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

  John W. Gardner

  Islands, Sea, Excellence

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.143, Pickle Partners Publishing

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