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• "Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Business, Long, Sound

  Patricia Aburdene (2005). “Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that.

  Barry Ptolemy

  Reality, Thinking, Islands

  "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.

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• If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

  Martin Jacques

  White, Racism, Minorities

  "Sarkozy plays the race card - and our establishment cheers" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2007.

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• There's so many great films coming out. It's still kind of astonishing to me how certain films get ignored, and that film ended up getting ignored and didn't get the attention that it deserved at Sundance.

  Elvis Mitchell

  Attention, Kind, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

  Bill Vaughan

  Differences, Long, People

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• in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

  Robin Morgan

  Age, United States, Youth

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.386, Open Road Media

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• The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

  Fay Weldon

  Pessimism, Prophet, Doom

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• In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic or social theorists. In economic theory, especially, the subject is almost completely ignored. This is not, I think, because economists regard mankind as basically selfish or even because economic man is supposed to act only in his self-interest; it is rather because economics has essentially grown up around the phenomenon of exchange and its theoretical structure rests heavily on this process.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Selfish, Men, Thinking

  "Notes on a Theory of Philanthropy". "Philanthropy and Public Policy", edited by Frank G. Dickinson, 1962.

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• Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.

  Mo Udall

  Country, Strong, Believe

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• In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrarty, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.

  Anna C Salter

  Children, Three, Done

  Anna C. Salter (2004). “Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?

  Janio Quadros

  Reality, Chinese, Millions

  "One Man's Cup of Coffee," Time Magazine, June 30, 1961.

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• The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.

  Steve Aylett

  Being Ignored, Speak, Great Things

  "Heart of the Original". Book by Steve Aylett, 2015.

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• Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?

  Roxane Gay

  Lame, My Favorite, Tweet

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.

  Yoko Ono

  Running, Males, Needs

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Intentions are a lot like seeds. You shove them into the ground, and every once in awhile, you water them. Largely, the seed does most of the work on its own. If, on one hand, you were digging the seed up several times a day to see what progress was being made, the seed would not take purchase in the soil. On the other hand, if you completely ignored it, giving no water or nourishment to the soil, the seed might not thrive.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Hands, Giving, Water

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• If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

  Chuck Berry

  Talking, People, Being Ignored

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

  Allen Covert

  Children, Hard Work, Pride

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• we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.

  Jan Clausen

  Taken, Long, Poetry

  Jan Clausen (1982). “A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism”, Long Haul Pr

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• Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Artist, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.202, Hoover Press

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• I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Opinion, Reader, Feels

  "Tonys 2013 Q&A: 'Neil Patrick Harris is the god of awards show'". Interview with Charles McNulty, articles.latimes.com. June 10, 2013.

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• I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.

  John Boyne

  Running, Growing Up, Children

  "John Boyne hates celebrity children's books". Interview with Kelly Gallucci, www.usatoday.com. April 11, 2014.

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• These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.

  Stephen King

  Country, Hate, Heart

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• You see an artist, a creative person, can accept criticism or can live with the criticism much more easily than with being ignored. Criticism makes you feel alive. If somebody is bothered enough to speak vituperatively about it, you feel you have touched a nerve and you are at least 'in touch.' You are not happy that he doesn't like it, but you feel you are in contact with life.

  Saul Bass

  Artist, Creative, Being Ignored

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• I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

  Nellie McKay

  Play, Being Ignored, The End Of The Day

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• You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spiritual, Pain, Order

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