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• We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

  Jose Marti

  People, Evil, Political

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Tone, Social, Members

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• And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fate, Perfect, Miracle

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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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• He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

  Paullina Simons

  Pain, Heart, Brave

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• There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature...yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Tree, Feelings

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2008.

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• Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, People, Risk

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.303, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on.

  Aung San

  Daughter, Father

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• My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

  Edward Tufte

  Nature, Law, Ideas

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• For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hope, Mean, Imagination

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• We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Technique, Crafts, Efficiency

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• What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

  William James

  Truth, Add, Facts

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.105, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part, many Chinese secretly believe that they care more about their children and are willing to sacrifice much more for them than Westerners, who seem perfectly content to let their children turn out badly. I think it's a misunderstanding on both sides. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "But Will It All Make 'Tiger Mom' Happy?" by Janet Maslin, www.nytimes.com. January 19, 2011.

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• One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

  Leon Kass

  Past, Looks, Century

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• Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

  John Tillotson

  Peace, Lying, Men

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• There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Stressed, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.199

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• By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations to petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An author cannot obtrude his service unasked, nor can be often suspected of any malignant intention to insult his readers with his knowledge or his wit. Yet so prevalent is the habit of comparing ourselves with others, while they remain within the reach of our passions, that books are seldom read with complete impartiality, but by those from whom the writer is placed at such a distance that his life or death is indifferent.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Book, Passion

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius".

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• The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Thinking, Quality

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

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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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• I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. … I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,’ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.

  Billy Wilder

  Bored, Moved On, Made

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• A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

  Alec Waugh

  Men, Support, Doubt

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• The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

  William Dampier

  Islands, Dry, Soil

  William Dampier (1703). “A New Voyage Round the World”, p.21

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• To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.

  James Hutton

  Regret, Reading, Humble

  James Hutton (1997). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations, in Four Parts”, p.46, Geological Society of London

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