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• A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

  Leon Uris

  Feet, Soldier, Wheels

  "Quotes for the Air Force Logistician" by Air Force Logistics Management Agency, p. 115, 2001.

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• To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Opportunity, Tears, Tasks

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.169

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• The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.

  James Gleick

  Fall, Blow, Ideas

  James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.

  Thomas Merton

  Beauty, Reality, Important

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.

  Laurence Sterne

  Art, Greatness, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “Sermons”, p.240

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• If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.

  John Humphrys

  Children, Punctuation Marks, Daddy

  "The end of the line?" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2008.

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• The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Doctors, Gold, Cold

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• Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity

  David Brainerd

  Thinking, Compromise, Sin

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.277

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• Moon Phase Astrology is a valuable resource on a neglected topic. Through the use of descriptive and poetic titles, insightful text, and inspiring historic quotes, Raven Kaldera illuminates the subtle differences of the often forgotten Moon phases through the twelve zodiac signs. A must read for those walking the path of the Moon.

  Christopher Penczak

  Moon, Zodiac, Ravens

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• Business neglected is business lost.

  Daniel Defoe

  Lost

  Daniel Defoe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)”, p.4441, Delphi Classics

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• All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp...ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.

  Richard L. Evans

  Caring, Needs, Esp

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little.care and thought about it.

  John Flavel

  Grateful, Forever, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 560), 1895.

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• The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

  Richard Linklater

  Children, Generations, Definitions

  "How Richard Linklater Turned a 'Crazy, Wildly Impractical Idea' Into an Oscar Front-Runner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 27, 2014.

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• For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception. Our only hope is to put our focus on the education of the young.

  John Hoyt

  Education, Animal, Building Up

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• Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Love Is, Plant, Sturdy

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• If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations. Those countries are neglected and left to fend for themselves.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Important, Small Countries

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

  Daniel Guerin

  Hands, People, Anarchy

  Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

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• I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected things. I think that's almost been part of Australian culture, which is why I think Movember is really important. We need to change that outlook.

  James Magnussen

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

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• He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Dirty, Dwelling, Soul

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• Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

  Saul Leiter

  Enterprise, Seeing

  "Saul Leiter, Photographer Who Captured New York's Palette, Dies at 89" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Reality, Psychics

  "Manifestoes of Surrealism". Book by André Breton, 1969.

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• Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Men, Demand, Kind

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• The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either of those things.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Government, Media, Custodians

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• Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.

  Tim Ferriss

  Entrepreneur, Important, Steps

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