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• Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

  Gorgias

  Philosophy, Men, Bed

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• May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we neglect the divine . . . and give ourselves over wholly to the human," he said, "we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism. . . . True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it."

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Two, Giving

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• ...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Abuse, Suffering

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• And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Doe, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Heinemann

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• Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

  Prince Philip

  Nature, Ignorance, World

  Speech at World Wildlife Fund Dinner, York, 1969. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Regret, Years, Careers

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• No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.

  Joseph Straus

  War, Should Have, Hazards

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• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

  J. K. Rowling

  Long, Damage, Wizards

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• I would say to bishops, and to all men in authority, we should have an interest in carrying on this work. We should labor to get the Spirit of God. It is our right, our privilege, and our duty to call upon the Lord, that the vision of our mind may be opened, so that we may see and understand the day and age in which we are living. It is your privilege, and mine too, to know the mind and will of the Lord concerning our duties, and if we fail to seek after this, we neglect to magnify our calling.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Life, Men, Should Have

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• The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

  Hasan of Basra

  Forgiveness, Wisdom, Islamic

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• One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.

  Takeda Shingen

  Loyalty, Military, Mean

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• Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

  Benjamin Graham

  Long, Prejudice, May

  Benjamin Graham, David Le Fevre Dodd (1934). “Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively and that our education system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Thinking, Two, Hemisphere

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• I think it would be really rotten to tell boys that schools won't cater for them properly because men have unquestionably been dominant for thousands of years. A feminism that deliberately neglects boys is immoral in my opinion.

  Kristina Schroder

  School, Boys, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Fruit, Bears, Sentimental

  Daniel Kehlmann (2009). “Measuring the World: A Novel”, p.16, Vintage

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• When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Buddhist, Growing Up

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• And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

  Barry Goldwater

  Liberty, Causes, Should

  "The Conscience of a Conservative". Book by Barry Goldwater and L. Brent Bozell, 1960.

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• Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Two, Confusion, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Mayer, Louise Bogan, Wystan Hugh Auden (1971). “The sorrows of young Werther, and Novella”

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• Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Criminals, Citizens, States

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• Though inclination be as sharp as will,
  My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
  And, like a man to double business bound,
  I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
  And both neglect.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Business, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine (2004). “Hamlet”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
  To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Mind, Ends

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.32

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• My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

  Ivy Baker Priest

  Children, Father, Sleep

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• Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil's back, by our willful disobedience of God's law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Real, Loss, Blessing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1889). “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon”

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• Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

  Loren Eiseley

  Life, Philosophy, Future

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.50, Library of America

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• If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

  Charles Kettering

  Business, Want, Mail

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