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• Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

  Susanna Clarke

  Kings, Long, Bankers

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.222, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Flower, Eye, Heart

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.639, Delphi Classics

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• In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.

  Vasily Grossman

  Our Generation, Evil, Generations

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• The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  Art, Invisible, Creation

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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• When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

  Jesse Jackson

  Opportunity, Swings, Doors

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• When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Everyday, Common

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

  Galileo Galilei

  Men, Action, Reason

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• Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

  Theodor Adorno

  People, Humanity, Culture

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.89, Stanford University Press

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• Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Moving, Men

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• I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

  Marie Dressler

  Beautiful, Matter, Feels

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• Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

  Jonathan Carroll

  Men, What If, Fascination

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• Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Pride, People, Fake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I’m partial to the truth, Lo. Good, bad or indifferent. (Vane)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Partial Truth

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.180, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

  Joan Didion

  Love, Respect, Self

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much. But people want to label everything... So I guess I seem indifferent in that way.

  Ai Yazawa

  People, Labels, Want

  "Nana". Manga by Ai Yazawa, 2000 - 2009.

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• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Sleep

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• I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fighting, Men, Adults

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• Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

  Judith Butler

  Names, Recognition, Social

  Judith Butler (1997). “The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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• Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding.

  Jose Saramago

  Dream, Law, Names

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• Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Eugenics, People

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

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• There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Freedom, Struggle

  Speech to the Second Economic Seminar of Afro-Asian Solidarity in Algiers, Algeria, www.marxists.org. February 24, 1965.

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• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Real, Divorce, Gay

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Hate, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

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• Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Nature, Survival, Humans

  Radio address, September 29, 1952.

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• The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

  Charles Babbage

  Wealth, Source, Process

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.4

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