Neglected Quotes - Page 6

• I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

  Frank Delaney

  Believe, Practice, World

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• In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Humanity, Delay

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Mother, Children, Home

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• I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to satisfy the plurality of interests. I will say, we neglected the importance of real value, human value and the quality of potential in human beings and we contrived phrases like geographical spread, regional quota, etc and allowed mediocrity to reign. I think that is the problem that we are dealing with till today.

  Wole Soyinka

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, America, Challenges

  Source: genius.com

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• there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Faith, Real, Book

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• Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

  Richard Matheson

  Should Have, Biting, Ignored

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Summer, Tombstone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.607

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• I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

  Don Van Vliet

  Children, Parent, Attention

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• Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mother, Educational, Drawing

  Thomas Jefferson (2016). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12: 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818”, p.533, Princeton University Press

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• Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Character, Skills

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• I never neglected my daughters - quite the opposite - but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Daughter, Should Have, Opposites

  Source: autoweek.com

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• I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

  David Chalmers

  Philosophy, Thinking, Years

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• Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

  Thomas Sowell

  School, Today, Indoctrination

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• After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Order, Years, Ideas

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• A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Eye, Shoes

  "The Plays of William Shakespeare".

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• Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Essentials, Christianity

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• The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original superficial level, without receiving guidance in study. Furthermore, the 'three Rs,' the fundamental tools, are neglected as long as possible, with the result that the child's chance to develop his mind is greatly retarded. The policy of teaching words via pictures instead of by the alphabet tends to deprive the young child of the greatest reasoning tool of all.

  Murray Rothbard

  Children, Educational, Teaching

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• How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Hands, Excellent

  Ethics pt. 5 (1677) (translation by Edwin Curley)

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• If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Long, Being Ignored

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• Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Heart, Men, America

  "Gift from the Sea".

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• There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.

  Betty Smith

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Struggle

  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn epigraph (1943)

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• One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ... The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Beautiful, Attitude, Book

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• If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

  Damon Galgut

  Done, World, Deeds

  Damon Galgut (2010). “In a Strange Room”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Thank goodness my education was neglected.

  Beatrix Potter

  Homeschooling, Goodness

  Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers

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