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• Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.

  Carolyn Forche

  Country, Heart, Wind

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• By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

  Gerald Durrell

  Children, War, Garden

  "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.

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• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  James Altucher

  Love You, Sacrifice, Ideas

  "Wall Street’s ‘Eat What You Kill’ Motto Is the Only Way to Live" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.

  William Henry Drummond

  Atheist, Eye, Men

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• No amount of activity in the King's service will make up for neglect of the King Himself.

  Robert E. Murray

  Kings, Activity, Amount

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• If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Gentleman, Ordinary

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• Balance is everything. And I'm not just speaking from a road perspective - even from home. My wife and I work out of the house and we always struggle to find that balance because when work is around you 24/7, it's easy to neglect the little things in life that really help us to rejuvenate or heal.

  Chuck Ragan

  Struggle, Home, Things In Life

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own destiny made and mended here." (Not yours.) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fate, Hard Times, Destiny

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.1797, e-artnow

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• Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Revenge, Injury, Increase

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.172, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general neglect of education in those who need it most, the people of fashion. What can be expected where those who have the most influence have the least sense, and those who are sure to be followed set the worst examples?

  George Berkeley

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1843). “The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.527

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• I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Responsibility, Thinking, Next Week

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• Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Littles, Deceiving, Duty

  Edward Bouverie Pusey (1883). “Maxims and gleanings from the writings of E.B. Pusey, selected by C.M.S.”

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• Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Government, Focus

  "Obama ventures into swamp, and enemy political territory, to deliver Earth Day message". www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2015.

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• For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Phases

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3065, Delphi Classics

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• I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.

  T. B. H. Stenhouse

  Religious, Men, Wife

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• When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all.

  William Golding

  Children, Long, Once Upon A Time

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marine, Men, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.89, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.

  Ingrid Weir

  Health, Fighting, Alive

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• If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

  Sterling W Sill

  Ignorance, Law, Forever

  "The Power of Believing". Book by Sterling W. Sill, p. 29, 1968.

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• ... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Responsibility, Race

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• This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Wife, Brain, Female

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• One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Adherence, Principles, Reckless

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.40

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• There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.

  Murray Rothbard

  Freedom, Mean, Responsibility

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• Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Fashion, Art, Spring

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• There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Enough, Good Things, Duty

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