Neglect Quotes - Page 31

• Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Community, Suffering

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• The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

  Vincent Massey

  Humanity, Age, Causes

  "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Centenary Dinner of University College, Toronto, October 16, 1953, 1959.

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• So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Hard Work, Character, Plot

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• The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

  John Conyers

  Needs, Cost, Republican

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• If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.

  Helen Clark

  Country, People, May

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• The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

  Barbra Streisand

  Country, Years, Perfect

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• Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

  Derek Bok

  Teaching, College, Support

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• I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Educational, Duty, Miscellaneous

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• The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

  Allan Kardec

  Practice, Principles, Intellect

  Allan Kardec (2016). “The Spirits’ Book: The Principles of Spiritist Doctrine”, p.366, Secret Master eBooks

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• We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Uplifting, Heart, Exercise

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• The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. 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.

  Charles Babbage

  Education, Science, May

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.

  Marshall Savage

  Ignorance, Moon, Night

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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.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Light, Wind, Weather

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• People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

  Julian Baggini

  People, Intellectual, Habit

  "Consistency is overrated" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.

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• We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.

  Jennifer Beals

  Hate, Character, Forever

  "It's a Wrap". Message posted on ourchart.com, October 16, 2008.

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• Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Blessing, Men

  Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

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• We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Jobs, Home

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• We all want to live a happy life and have a right to do so, whether through work or spiritual practice. I'm subject to destructive emotions like anger and jealousy the same as you, but we all have potential for good too. However, our existing education system is oriented towards material development; neglecting inner values. Consequently we lack a clear awareness of the inner values that are the basis of a happy life.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Happy Life, Practice

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• It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Revenge, Hate, Enemy

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• One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

  Ibn Hazm

  Years, Effort, Hours

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• Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

  Mira Bartok

  Children, Pain, Who I Am

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace: A Memoir”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain.

  Russell Page

  Garden, Artist, Skeletons

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• It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Men, Soul

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4037, Delphi Classics

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• There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

  John Calvin

  Soul, Attention, Body

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.90, Baker Books

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• For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this - to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.

  Lucian

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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