Abigail McCarthy Quotes
The apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
Abigail McCarthy
Quotes to Explore
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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
Ken Robinson
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I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.
Marion Milner
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Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?
Charles Dickens
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Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.
Caroline Polachek
Chairlift
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I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors.
Scott Frank
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It's okay to have flaws, that's what makes you real.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt.
Beryl Markham
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We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
Hayao Miyazaki
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If I were sent to Siberia, it would not surprise me. I would even prefer to just be a maid than go on living like this. You will pay for your apathy.
Camille Claudel
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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
Alan Rickman
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It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy.
Albert Bandura
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Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.
Jimmy Buffett
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In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.
C. S. Lewis
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One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.
Peter George Peterson
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The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.
Albert Einstein
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You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
Nikola Tesla
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I like a physical team, but one that uses our bodies properly.
Pat Quinn
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The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
Murray Rothbard
