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• I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

  Francois Fenelon

  Believe, Divine Order, Providence

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• Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.

  Gary Hamel

  Past, Games, Creating

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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• The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stars, Destiny, Men

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• If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Office, Justice

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.249, Graphic Arts Books

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• The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Couple, Church

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• This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)

  Uri Orbach

  Religious, Thinking, Israel

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• Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Change, Reality, Climate

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.

  Robert Musil

  Beautiful, Pain, Birth

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• In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.

  Sarah Polley

  Struggle, Matter, Facts

  Interview with Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

  Rob Bell

  Believe, Thinking, Cold

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Order, Self, Desire

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• You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

  Bill Bruford

  People, Surround Yourself, Hard

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• For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: "Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends." They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.

  Tilden Edwards

  Jesus, Good Friend, Two

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• Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.

  Edward Gibbon

  House, Inns, Masters

  Edward Gibbon (2017). “Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)”, p.4, Litres

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• I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

  Vera Brittain

  Thinking, Important, Majority

  Vera Brittain (2005). “One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War”, p.42, A&C Black

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• It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Understanding, Tragedy

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• Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

  Jerome Bruner

  Stimulus, Organisms

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• The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.

  Ernst Junger

  Emotional, Hands, Sovereign

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• It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant... You will not be able to set up in a pagan or an heretical or a wholly indifferent society the institutions characteristic of economic freedom; you will not be able to curb competition which alone would be sufficient to destroy such freedom, nor pursue permanently and consecutively any one part of the program. The thing must be done as a whole, and it can be done as a whole only by the ambient influence of Catholicism.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Competition, Would Be, Done

  "The Crisis Of Civilization".

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• That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, while the man seems careless and indifferent.

  Sophy Burnham

  Eye, Men, Goal

  Sophy Burnham (2009). “The Treasure of Montsegur: A Novel of the Cathars”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

  Jean Cocteau

  Years, Twenties, Rooms

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• As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Unitarians put together.

  Natalie Angier

  Buddhist, Atheist, People

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• I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

  Segolene Royal

  Want, Spirit, Vengeance

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• The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Care, Rewards, Moral

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.

  Martin Rees

  Responsibility, Technology, Ideas

  "Dark materials" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.

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