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• Of course, our immigration system isn't broken. The enforcement of our immigration system is broken. The president Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, and several in the Republican Party are trying to break the immigration system. The system itself is not broken; it's just fine. It's just being ignored.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Broken, Being Ignored

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Winning slowly is another way of losing. Americans are screwing up our health care system again right now. That's going to cause grave trouble for people over the next five, 10 years. There are going to be lots of people who die, lots of people who are sick. It's going to be horrible. But 10 years from now it will not be harder to solve the problem because you ignored it for those 10 years. With climate change, that's not true. As each year passes, we move past certain physical tipping points that make it impossible to recover large parts of the world that we have known.

  Bill McKibben

  Moving, Winning, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.

  Denise Levertov

  Memories, Clothes, Offering

  Denise Levertov (1997). “The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

  Richard Matheson

  Should Have, Biting, Given

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• When we, hijras, started our activism, we had to tell people, "We exist, we are humans. Please give us nothing but our basic dignity." The biggest misery in the world, I believe, is the feeling of being unloved, and that this community faces a lot. You're not even considered to be human. You're considered transparent. We were ignored until we started organizing, when HIV first became a factor. Even in the HIV world, people could not believe that hijras have sex. And then also we were put in the category of men having sex with men, the gay community.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Believe, Gay, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Writing, Dark

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• Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

  John O. Brennan

  Needs, Might, Facts

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• To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.

  Glenda Bailey

  Mistake, Heart, Instinct

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• Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

  Gregory Bateson

  Logic, Paradox, Models

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• Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.

  Paul Bettany

  Average, Cities, Nyc

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Donald Trump loves America. He wants it to be the greatest place on earth. He thinks political people have made it the mess that it is. And he's been very open and up front about how he goes about accomplishing things, and that's totally ignored.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Political

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored

  Karen Marie Moning

  Instruction, Made, Passengers

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• That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.

  Howard Zinn

  Book, Thinking, Connections

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.124, Beacon Press

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• Falling into Donald Trump's trap, or being distracted every time he sends out a tweet is really not leadership. And, I would point you to a historical example, Italy's Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, a larger-than-life personality. People didn't know what to do until somebody came up with a novel idea: Why don't we ignore him? They completely ignored the personality, the man, and focused on the issues. He was defeated twice. Maybe we can learn from that lesson.

  Sam Rasoul

  Fall, Men, People

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• How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Care, Middle

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “The Wedding”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

  John Dewey

  School, Pouring, Teach

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• I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful religious poetry - both poetry and theology push conventional definitions and explore perceptions that might be ignored or passed off as conventional, but when they are pressed yield much larger meanings, seem to be part of a much larger system of reality.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

  Terry Pratchett

  Strange, Wonderful, Boring

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• Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

  David Byrne

  Decision, Mundane Life, Accumulation

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• I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Isolated

  Claire LaZebnik (2011). “Epic Fail”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.

  Robert Jordan

  War, Years, Perfect

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.144, Macmillan

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• I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

  Tony Campolo

  Suggestions, Can Do, Extremist

  "The Growing Impossibility of Interfaith Dialogue" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!

  Pat Paulsen

  Book, Drug, Speech

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• Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.

  Bertrand Russell

  Doubt, Frightened, Isolated

  Bertrand Russell, Barry Feinberg, Ronald Kasrils (1969). “Dear Bertrand Russell ... a selection of his correspondence with the general public, 1950-1968”, Allen & Unwin

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• It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about it. I feel really lucky because we have a lot of help. When I first began to be a dad with Gwen [Stefani], I was amazed at what she went through.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Dad, Race, Self

  Source: collider.com

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