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• If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

  Djuna Barnes

  Class, Paper, Peppermint

  Djuna Barnes (1996). “Collected Stories”, Sun and Moon Press

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• Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

  Saul Alinsky

  Long, Democracy, Would Be

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• War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  War, Suffering, Done

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Rooms, Facts

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Bullying, Blunt, Outrage

  Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Unbearable Lightness of Scones”, p.202, Anchor

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• Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

  Dan Simmons

  Law, Being Ignored, Habit

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.422, Spectra

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• There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.

  John S. Hall

  People, Soul, Defense

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Inside each of us dwells a more-perfect self waiting to unfold. It cries loudly for release, yet it is sometimes ignored. To answer its call, you must take time to listen.

  DeBarra Mayo

  Self, Perfect, Waiting

  DeBarra Mayo (1983). “Yoga”, Anderson World

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• The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

  Tom Allen

  Special, Quality, Mercury

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• For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.

  Jay-Z

  Crazy, America, Mind Blowing

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

  J. B. Priestley

  Real, Fiction, Facts

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• Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.

  Neil Diamond

  Reviews, Bad Reviews

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• I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

  Cass McCombs

  Writing, People, Giving

  Interview with Eric Harvey, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2011.

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• When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Opposites, Ultimate

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The truth is the committed left press in America is not longer interest in reporting the news. Anything that hinders a favorable view of the far left will be ignored; anything that advances liberal causes will be celebrated. News reporting today is largely about ideology and shaping the culture, not about informing the public.

  Bill O'Reilly

  America, Views, Today

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• Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wealth, Welfare, Public Welfare

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• Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can recall times they ignored their gut only to regret it later. Learning to actually listen to your instinct is a great form of self-preservation. It's both incredibly easy and tough at the same time, but worth the effort to master.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Regret, Self, Sharks

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• Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decision-makers will depart before the results of their neglect becomes manifest. Which brings us to the environment.

  Jack McDevitt

  Issues, Decision, Going Away

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