“ The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. ”
- Czeslaw Milosz- Copy
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“ Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day. ”
- Peace Pilgrim- Copy
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“ Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. ”
- Baruch Spinoza- Copy
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“ INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. "You tiresome man!" cried Indolentio's wife, "You've grown indifferent to all in life." "Indifferent?" he drawled with a slow smile; "I would be, dear, but it is not worth while… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ”
- Hannah Whitall Smith- Copy
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“ Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
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“ Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently. ”
- John G. Vance- Copy
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“ It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
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“ We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
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“ The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. ”
- Carl Edward Sagan- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. ”
- Reverend Peter Marshall- Copy
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“ All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do. ”
- Katharine Butler Hathaway- Copy
- 372
“ Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low. ”
- Sir Philip Sidney- Copy
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“ Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided. ”
- General Iberico Saint Jean- Copy
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“ History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. ”
- William J. Durant- Copy
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“ If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself. ”
- George M. Adams- Copy
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“ It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ”
- Robert Lynd- Copy
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“ Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent. ”
- B.C. Forbes- Copy
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