"I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to."
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"I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question."
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"There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe."
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"I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?"
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"I'm into eating as little as possible, paying as little attention as possible. I never cook. Never use the stove or anything."
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"In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature."
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"I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention to what differentiates us. That makes perfect sense for us as human beings."
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"To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege."
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"My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs."
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"Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods."
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"Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body."
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"I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation."
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"A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed."
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"I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known."
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"Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius."
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"Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say."
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"Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully."
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"The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time."
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"Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention."
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"I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased."
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