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• The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Perception

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.3, Univ of California Press

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• The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking survey of the varieties the latter of these beliefs has had, both within and outside the Christian tradition. Becoming Divine reconstructs an accessible and fascinating mosaic of this too-long neglected idea, utilizing figures as disparate as Orphic cultists, Augustine, and Nietzsche.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Christian, Religious, Destiny

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• The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

  Franz Werfel

  Frustrated, Sin, Formulas

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• In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Beauty, Sex, Males

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.44

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• What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

  Chauncey Wright

  Long, Duty, Fearful

  Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.32, A&C Black

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• Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.

  Yukio Mishima

  Sweet, Hands, Long

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that captured the spirit and tone of your letter, and I think I did pretty well. []  I am thoroughly annoyed at having my tame statements of fact-being heavy is a health risk; rolls of exposed flesh are unsightly-characterized as “hate speech.” 

  Dan Savage

  Hate, Thinking, Annoyed

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• In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the Romans had spread through Europe, disappeared. Not only the arts of elegance, which minister to luxury, and re supported by it, but many of the useful arts, without which life can scarcely be contemplated as comfortable, were neglected or lost.

  Bryan Ward-Perkins

  Art, Europe, Luxury

  Bryan Ward-Perkins (2006). “The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization”, p.13, OUP Oxford

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• Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Writing, Satanic, Television

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• Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Genius, Shabby

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

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• 'Established' is a good word, much used in garden books,
  'the plant, when established' ...
  Oh, become established quickly, quickly, garden!
  For I am fugitive, I am very fugitive -
  Those that come after me will gather these roses,
  And watch, as I do now, the white wisteria
  Burst, in the sunshine, from its pale green sheath.
  Planned. Planted. Established. Then neglected,
  Till at last the loiterer by the gate will wonder
  At the old, old cottage, the old wooden cottage,
  And say, 'One might build here, the view is glorious;
  This must have been a pretty garden once.

  Ursula Bethell

  Book, Sunshine, Garden

  Ursula Bethell, Vincent O'Sullivan (1997). “Collected Poems”, p.8, Victoria University Press

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• Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.

  Pablo Neruda

  Time, Heart, Sadness

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• Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Life, Gone, Losing

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• I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Men, White Man

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• The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

  William Gurnall

  Taken, Soul, Laziness

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.65

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• If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

  Epictetus

  Strength, Character, Might

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cities, Rivers, Shining

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• American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

  Niall Ferguson

  Names, People, Needs

  Niall Ferguson (2002). “Empire: the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Fall, Weakness

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• Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality of the microscopic world; how simple portrayals of the logic of substitution and combination were reified; brings to our attention the imaginative, neglected work of Williamson and Kopp; and takes a critical look at Kekule's daydream. And it beautifully delineates the essential place the imagination has in science. A rewarding, lively picture of chemistry in formation.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Simple, Reality, Imagination

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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

  Carl Jung

  Giving Up, Passion, Men

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• For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

  Walter Benjamin

  Running, Home, Age

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• Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Age, Novelists

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah”

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• The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

  Daniel Goleman

  Spiritual, Stress, Practice

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• I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

  John Bradshaw

  Children, Believe, Past

  John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.7, Bantam

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