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• It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

  James A. Baldwin

  Paris, French Culture, Eiffel Tower

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• Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Freedom, Fate, Rights

  Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977.

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• I spent four indifferent years at Goodison, but they were great years.

  Martin Hodge

  Football, Years, Great Year

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• What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or big tragedies - the wind is blowing, the leaves are rustling in the trees, the flowers bloom, and die - there's a great comfort in that indifference.

  Valzhyna Mort

  Flower, Wind, Tree

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• If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Government, Reform

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.349

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• There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so... I am afraid we can only imagine the terror and the carnage there and the many, many innocent people who will have lost their lives... It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.

  Tony Blair

  Couple, Fighting, Our World

  Tony Blair's speech to the Trades Union Congress, September 11, 2001.

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• A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.

  Joe Hill

  Song, Heart, Numbers

  Letter to the editor of Solidarity, November 29, 2014.

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• If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

  John Piper

  Names, World, God Love

  John Piper (2002). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.187, B&H Publishing Group

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• The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teaching, Men, Hands

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

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• The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Names, Usual, World

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

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• The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

  Camille Paglia

  Female, Machines, Body

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.37, Canongate Books

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• Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal
  seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention
  has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now
  greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death
  through freezing - a pleasant one.

  Reinhold Messner

  Memories, Goal, Important

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• I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Healing, Doe, Sometimes

  "Darkness and Day". Book by Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1974.

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• But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

  Edmund Burke

  Eye, Leader, Curiosity

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.168, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.

  Jacques Monod

  Fate, Science, Men

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• We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Differences, Making A Difference

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.

  John Calvin

  Men, People, Faces

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• In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Book, Home, Growing

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• Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

  Ernesto Sabato

  Life, Stars, Novelists

  Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK

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• My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Heart, Humanity, Brotherhood

  The Progressive, February 2002.

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• True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Mean, Essentials, Permanent

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• Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

  John Herschel

  Eye, Men, Order

  "A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy". Book by John Herschel, 1830.

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• Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.

  Amy Sillman

  Teacher, Art, Cheerleader

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• It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Providence

  Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Birdsong”, p.290, Random House

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• Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

  Sergei Dovlatov

  Ocean, Infinity, Life Is

  Sergei Dovlatov (2011). “The Suitcase: A Novel”, p.13, Counterpoint Press

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