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• If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Gratitude, Privilege, Ifs

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.239, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

  Samuel Johnson

  Purpose, Visionaries, Care

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.142

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• To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Sleep, Preparation

  The Rambler no. 78 (15 Dec. 1750)

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• The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Example

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• My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

  Lea Thompson

  Mother, Kids, Self Worth

  "Lea Thompson Talks Parenting, DWTS And Taking Charge After 50". Interview with Caroline Presno, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.

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• My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

  Thomas Eakins

  Honor, Misunderstanding

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• For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

  Patricia Penton Leimbach

  Adversity, Everyday, Vexation

  Patricia Penton Leimbach (1987). “All my meadows”, Harpercollins

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• People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.

  Jules Romains

  People, Sick, Wells

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• There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "Human Action". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1949.

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• The Congress' name of 'INC' must be changed to 'Institutions Neglecting Congress'. Their habit is to misuse, abuse and reduce institutions.

  Narendra Modi

  Names, Abuse, India

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• He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Likes, Favour

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.325, 谷月社

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• The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Military, Class, America

  "Campaign 2000: Promoting the National Interest" by Condoleezza Rice in Foreign Affairs, Volume 79, No. 1, www.foreignaffairs.com. January/February 2000.

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• Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Father, Mean, Men

  'Orthodoxy' (1908) ch. 4

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• I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

  Barry Humphries

  Secret, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

  Derek Parfit

  Self, Imagination, Might

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• Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

  Ovid

  Men, Looks, Care

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.121, Indiana University Press

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• The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

  Washington Irving

  Evil, Englishmen, Preparing

  Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis, Washington Irving (1840). “The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine”, p.520

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• The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Long, United States, Financial

  "Interview With German Finance Minister Schauble: 'The US Has Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long'". Interview with Michael Sauga and Peter Muller, www.spiegel.de. November 8, 2010.

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• Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.

  Carolyn Forche

  Country, Heart, Wind

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• By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

  Gerald Durrell

  Children, War, Garden

  "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.

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• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  James Altucher

  Love You, Sacrifice, Ideas

  "Wall Street’s ‘Eat What You Kill’ Motto Is the Only Way to Live" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• No amount of activity in the King's service will make up for neglect of the King Himself.

  Robert E. Murray

  Kings, Activity, Amount

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• If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Gentleman, Ordinary

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• All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it is virtuous; and when the neglect or nonperformance of it displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it.

  David Hume

  Lying, Mind, Quality

  David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship.

  Robert E. Webber

  Teaching, Years, Church

  Robert E. Webber, Robert Webber (1996). “Learning to Worship with All Your Heart: A Study in the Biblical Foundations of Christian Worship”, Hendrickson Pub

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