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		Most people out there are just trying to keep their job and provide for their family. If climate change is now a once-in-a-mortgage problem, and if food prices start to spike, people will pay attention.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Titley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Saul Bellow
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sean O'Casey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was just doing what I love to do. I don't like to be the center of attention. We're all out there trying to finish Western States – it never felt like I was better than anybody else.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ann Trason
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener . . . where it is watered.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ezra Taft Benson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Everybody around the world's paying attention. Markets move. National security issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you don't make mistakes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rick Larsen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Hack Tuke
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Perception, after all, is not simply a matter of what you believe about yourself, it all encompasses what others think about you, and what has been thought of you historically. I say we can pay attention to those other dimensions of our identity - class, gender, sexual orientation, geographical region - while at the same time understanding how our historically produced racial identity continues to serve, or undercut us.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael Eric Dyson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have gone from pure trade [with China] in traditional goods [energy resources, such as hydrocarbons, oil and now natural gas, petrochemicals on the one hand and textiles and footwear on the other] to a whole new level of economic cooperation. For example, we are working together on space programmes. Moreover, we are developing and soon will begin the production of a heavy helicopter. We are now tracing the plan for the creation of a wide-body long-range aircraft.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vladimir Putin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		This profession photography is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ansel Adams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Steven Amsterdam
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brennan Manning
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Susan Sontag
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		This is an attraction based Universe. You cannot say no. You are always saying, 'Yes please, yes please, yes please,' with your attention.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Esther Hicks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		...And how that girl did talk against time to make us think she was crazy about her Louie. She called attention to his honesty and his ability and his nose and the shape of his feet and his blue blood and his energy and what-have-you, and all the time, I was dying to quote that smart old Billy Shakespeare who was just as wordy as she was: 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bess Streeter Aldrich
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Simon Bird
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Shonda Rhimes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		In the industry, I got a lot of attention for Mad Men, because everyone in the industry watches it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Drew
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cato the Elder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cecil O. Samuelson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I give people my heart and my full attention.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael Rosenbaum