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• Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Intellectual, Roles

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• The reality is that Qaddafi has been trying to talk to us about his weapons system for years, and we ignored him. The Libyans even came to me about two years ago and offered me a chance to go through their facilities because they couldn't get anybody's attention here.

  Seymour Hersh

  Reality, Years, Two

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

  Matthew Specktor

  Self, Care, Next

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Islamic, Home, Dark

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

  Alexander Theroux

  Book, Editors, Agents

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

  Oswald Chambers

  Dark, Garden, Bulbs

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• The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're ignored by everybody else.

  Billy Collins

  World, Gaps, Poet

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

  John Travolta

  Baby, Kids, Men

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums.

  Tony Visconti

  Albums, Records, Bigs

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• It's true that in Romanian I feel more relaxed, as if I'm wearing slippers...but I came to this decision primarily for other reasons: I had only published three collections of texts in Romania. Even before my exile I was prohibited from publishing, I was ignored and forgotten. In going back to Romanian I had the opportunity to take my revenge.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Revenge, Opportunity, Decision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Stubborn, Ifs

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Winning, Awards, Film

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

  Lou Doillon

  Strong, Children, Thinking

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• The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.

  John Burroughs

  Wise, Iraq, United States

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• The plays raise issues that are ignored in other forums.

  Ishmael Reed

  Play, Issues, Forums

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.

  Masaaki Imai

  Variation, Shifting, Impossible

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• I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.

  Yoshi Wada

  Years, Cds, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.

  Susan Sontag

  Sex, Past, Moments

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• You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

  William Landay

  Book, Writing, Appreciated

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• When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Artist, Culture, Genius

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• To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it.

  Lawrence Wright

  Thinking, Bridges, Support

  "Lawrence Wright brings Mideast conflict to stage". Interview with Lauri Neff, www.boston.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

  Tom Perrotta

  Thinking, People, Perspective

  "Tom Perrotta serves 'Leftovers' with grief, empathy". Interview with Brian Braiker, www.usatoday.com. September 8, 2011.

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• We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

  Andy Partridge

  Art, Want, Adulation

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• The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Moving, Light, Matter

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody who says the problem you're trying to solve simply doesn't exist. When President Kennedy set us on a course for the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn't be worth it; it was going to be too expensive, it was going to be too hard, it would take too long. But nobody ignored the science. I don't remember anybody saying that the moon wasn't there or that it was made of cheese.

  Barack Obama

  Unique, Moon, Numbers

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