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• From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Sex, Military, War

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

  R. Murray Schafer

  Dawn, World, Modern

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• All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

  Paul Washer

  Prayer, Scripture, Causes

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2012

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• When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day.

  Sam Ewing

  Mother, Thinking, Eggs

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• Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives.

  Michael Leunig

  Lying, Heart, Media

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• You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

  Percy Ross

  Powerful, Secret, Asking

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• Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Real, Winning, Religion

  Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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