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• Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.216

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• History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad peopleBut the appalling silence and indifference of the good.Our generation will have to repent notOnly for the words and actions of the children of darknessBut also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Courage, Children, Light

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• The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Father, Thinking

  "If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer".

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• Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Grief, Loss, Men

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.228, tredition

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• One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Communication, Loss

  Charles Horton Cooley (1912). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

  Anthony Trollope

  Believe, Food, Men

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister”, p.1315, e-artnow

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• It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Oysters, Shrimp, Matter

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Being and Nothingness”, p.617, Open Road Media

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• Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

  Martha Ostenso

  Time, Design, Earth

  Martha Ostenso (1927). “The Mad Carews”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Strong, Stupid, Faces

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• INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Distinction, Indifferent, Sensible

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.105, 谷月社

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• RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Differences, Poet

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.189, 谷月社

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• The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

  Epictetus

  Use, Matter, Indifferent

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• For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.

  Mary Butts

  Battle, Form, Certain

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• He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

  Saadi

  Suffering Of Others, Traitor, Indifferent

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• Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

  Edward Gibbon

  Attachment, History, Important

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.175

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• Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!

  George Colman the Elder

  Home, Giving, House

  The Clandestine Marriage act 1 (1766).

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• The great enemy of morality is indifference.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Enemy, Morality

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• Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

  Socrates

  Death, Believe, Fate

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• Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Race, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  War, Passion, Men

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• The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

  Agnes Repplier

  Views, Doe, Trouble

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Defense, Vigilance, Eternal

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Time, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.

  Marcel Proust

  Intelligent, Long, Intellectual

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• Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is instantly available. By continuously practicing good will we cultivate a deep subconscious habit of good will. It becomes a pattern of our response in all situations. Good will works as silently as the sun and with as much power. It thaws the ice and snow of resistance and indifference. It warms and wins human hearts. It draws forth the best in others as flowers are drawn from the soil. It stimulates growth.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Flower, Heart, Winning

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