"Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream"
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"No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment."
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"Give full attention and devotion to each act."
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"The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II"
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"'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention."
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"Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention."
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"It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill."
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"Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours."
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"The breath of the mind is attention."
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"The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth."
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"I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves."
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"I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention."
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"There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul."
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"God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either."
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"Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person."
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"Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense."
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"Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future."
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"If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good."
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"I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to."
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"I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem."
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