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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»
Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
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Advice
| Keywords:
advice, honestly, indifferent, perfectly, persist, persist in, tried and true
«Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.»
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
heal, healer, healers, healing, indifferent, perfunctory
«To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
constitutes, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, incapable, indifferent, intrinsic, locked, paradoxically, potentially, self respect
«Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it; about facing the existenti»
Author: Tom Flynn
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about-face, accepting, facing, gloriously, humanist, humanists, impulse, indifferent, religious truth, resisting, secular, suspect
«Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.»
«The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.»
«Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world»
«The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails»
Author: James Joyce
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Art
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Above and Beyond, existence of God, fingernail, handiwork, indifferent, pare, paring, parings, refined, The Creation, the existence of God, The God
«The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Sin
| Keywords:
creatures, essence, essences, fellow, Fellow Creature, hate, indifferent, inhumanity, in essence, like sin, of the essence, sin, The Fellows, worst
«The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Fellow Creature, indifferent, inhumanity
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